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5a33e0c
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You're awful." He said it as though he was delighted. "And the worst part is that you believe otherwise."
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Holly Black |
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9de4945
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Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can
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jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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0a09cea
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I hope it unnerves them to know that I am lying. After all, if the insult to me is pointing out that I am mortal, then this is my riposte: I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.
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Holly Black |
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291a1a5
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Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth."
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Holly Black |
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5e6bdd0
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile."
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the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
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Holly Black |
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0a41b78
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I'm just surprised your parents let you go online," Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn't exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony."
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internet
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Cassandra Clare and Holly Black |
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438fff3
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Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs.
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Holly Black |
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8d389ec
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The flavor of that blood stayed with him through the long years of his service (...) by then he could no longer remember whose blood it was, only that he had grown used to the taste.
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Holly Black |
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5e6158f
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Sprites glitter in air that stinks of freshly spilled blood. The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.
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carelessness-of-people
corruption-politics
forgetfulness
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Holly Black |
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980006d
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You're terrible at this whole 'tell me whatever I want to know' thing." My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don't pick it up. He sighs. "Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?" He raises his brows."
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double-entendre
double-meaning
faeries
question
suggestive
tail
tale
truth-telling
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Holly Black |
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b05a530
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I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back."
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jude-duarte
villians
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Holly Black |
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You can't be jealous of me. You don't have to live at the sufferance of the same person who murdered your parents. You don't have to stay angry because if you don't, there's a bottomless well of fear ready to open up under you." I stop speaking abruptly, surprised at myself. I said I wasn't going to be charmed, but I let him trick me into opening up to him."
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Holly Black |
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15a1ff3
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One of his hands slides over my stomach, tracing the shape of my skin. He kisses me again, and it's like falling off a cliff. Like a mountain slide, building momentum with every touch, until there is only destruction ahead. I have never felt anything like this.
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Holly Black |
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467ebd8
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I expect her to say The Liar. She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets. "What else? The Queen."
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Holly Black |
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9ae7556
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Sam counts the money carefully. I watch him in the mirror. "You know what I wish?" he asks when he's done. "What?" "That someone would convert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me." That startles a laugh out of me. "That would be pretty awesome." A slow, shy smile spreads across his mouth. "And we could take bets on them. And be filthy rich."
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Holly Black |
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6fbb717
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Despite everything, she was stupid enough to love him still. Sadly, some part of her probably always would.
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Shayla Black |
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b7ca601
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Congratulations. So far, you've both scored a hundred percent on the quiz." "Quiz?" Liam blinked, then looked at Hammer, his eyes wide. "Shit, we didn't study, mate." "If Seth is giving the quiz, we're good. He can't be smarter than us," Hammer said in a stage whisper."
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Shayla Black |
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He will not take her." Sabelle turned toward the booming declaration. Ice. His protective gaze was as tangible as a caress. She swallowed. "Of course not," Duke assured. "Sabelle is too important to our cause." Ice stormed around the table until he hovered beside her, mere inches away, his body heat pouring over her. "If there is a breath left in my body, he will not take her."
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Shayla Black |
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a1f90fe
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Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing."
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Holly Black |
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423e54e
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Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a magician's apprentice or a pig keeper who might or might not be a king's son or a princess with a prophecy hanging over my head. But I could, maybe, somehow, be part of a community of artists who loved magic.
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speculative-fiction
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Holly Black |
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c7b2604
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We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.
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Holly Black |
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b95d629
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You're mixing your metaphors. It gives me a headache.
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Holly Black Cassandra Clare |
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0658409
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It was so strange to be touched so gently by a creature like him- a creature who looked just like the kind of boy who you might let touch your thigh for a totally different reason.
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Holly Black |
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ce7eb6d
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Girls love cat calendars.
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Holly Black Cassandra Clare |
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8497506
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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Holly Black |
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c4bf4cb
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They see themselves in you and are blinded.
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Holly Black |
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70caa5f
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Time's up, Ladies. Let's go back inside. We can sit by the fire, hold hands, and sing Kumbaya," Seth called from the front porch. "Fucker," Hammer muttered. "I think we should beat his ass next," Liam muttered conspiratorially. Both men cracked a knowing grin. As if they'd read one another's minds, they raised their right arms and flipped Seth off, laughing. It felt good."
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Shayla Black |
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7641846
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Are you a Dominant, Sir?" "Yes." A smile played at his lips. Hearing her call him that would never get old. "And I'm a submissive?" "Absolutely," Law whispered in her ear. "You're the sweetest little sub I've ever seen." A grin curled her mouth up. "So I call you my Doms?" "Yes, pet." Her smile widened until she looked as if she was trying to keep a straight face. "You're Dominic, the Dom." He sighed. "Yes, pet. I think I was aptly named." ..
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Shayla Black |
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f3d39c7
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if you waited twenty-six years to have sex, you're probably not going to copulate with a stranger.
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Shayla Black |
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2528493
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That was bad news. Terrible. The worst.
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Shayla Black |
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eb72300
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Dominance and submission can be a game or a way of life, depending on how seriously you play...the promise of pleasure can be every bit as arousing as the pleasure itself, maybe more." (Jack)"
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Shayla Black |
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bdcec97
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The air of innocence remained, still begging corruption.
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Shayla Black |
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2a7993d
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Kinley stepped up behind Law, peering out from behind his back. "Are you sorry you kidnapped me?" He had to be honest with her. "No. If I hadn't, you wouldn't be here. I'd be a lot sorrier about that. I think you would, too." She pursed her lips. "Are you sorry that your dog raped mine?" He wasn't about to take that. "No, your dog led mine into sin. He has a thing for bows. She used it against him." He caught the faintest hint of a smile fr..
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Shayla Black |
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You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me.
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Shayla Black |
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0262e8a
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Take the pleasure I'm giving you as a vow, pet. If you leave me, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth. There won't be a place you hide where I can't find you. I will never stop looking. I will never give up. I will never let you go when I can save you. - Mitchell Thorpe
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Shayla Black |
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c7f19d1
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The bonds didn't give so much as an inch. He must have been one h*ll of a boyscout.
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Shayla Black |
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a93eb3c
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El tiempo se alargaba, se hacia elastico, y creaba esa maravillosa sensacion de que todo lo que alguna vez habia vivido estaba unido a todo lo que existia ahora
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Campbell Black James Kahn Rob MacGregor |
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I knew I couldn't live without you another moment. And I knew I loved you. Well, I knew it when you left the cafe, and like an idiot, I'd failed more than once to see the other half of my soul right in front of me. Never again. You're mine.
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Shayla Black |
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8cf773a
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And she understood now that love wasn't just wanting, but a steady devotion, no matter what.
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Shayla Black |
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e2a3e92
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Become apart of me as I become apart of you. And ever after,I promise myself to thee. Each day we share ,I shall behonest, good, and true. If this you seek, heed my call. From this moment on, there is no other for me but you.
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Shayla Black |
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ffe6e98
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Hey!" To his horror, the canvas started to move and a perfectly manicured hand appeared. Law rushed across the hall, his feet making not a single sound against the carpet. "Hafta getta way." Kinley was trying to haul herself out of the laundry cart. One fist came up. "Won't let you. Won't." Riley peered down at her. How did she make that look so fucking adorable? She was a mess of white tulle, and all he could think about was wrapping himse..
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Shayla Black |
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99961e0
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Watch that mouth, cher. I own a ball gag. I know how to use it," he growled."
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Shayla Black |
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d31b4f6
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Partly because it is such a complex process, reading is not just a habit our a skill, it's a deeply satisfying emotional experience. Something in us knows that the slimmest insights, the trust wisdom, the most enduring knowledge come through this channel. The spleen word rushes by and is gone, but the written word remains. It ensures. It can be consulted over and over again. Forever. How wise then to surround oneself with books and magazin..
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Arthur Gordon Those Little Black Marks quoted in Norman Vincent Peale (c 1984) p. 56. |
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c29dcfb
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until Eric had explained that it was really just an excuse for a guy to rub his penis all over a girl and not get slapped in the face. After that,
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Shayla Black |