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21bab0f
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What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?
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Holly Black |
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ea55442
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.
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Holly Black |
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d16cacf
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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Holly Black |
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b5bb862
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I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.
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Holly Black |
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2038126
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Holly Black |
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5d02003
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I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.
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despair
sad
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Holly Black |
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bd6786f
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The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a ..
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humans
marks
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Holly Black |
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58e03a3
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker."
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Holly Black |
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289b8ff
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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Holly Black |
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4fb8f18
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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Holly Black |
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2366848
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Go ahead. Insult me." His eyebrows go up. "I don't take commands from mortals," he says with his customary cruel smile. "So you're going to say something nice? I don't think so. Faeries can't lie."
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Holly Black |
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57f8e81
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Would you?" Mom smiles and touches my hair, pushing it back from my forehead. I let her, but I grit my teeth. Her bare fingers brush my skin. I am thankful when none of my amulets crack. "Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Isn't that beautiful? My grandfather told me that when I was a little girl, and I never forgot it. Unfortunately, I still like my milk."
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Holly Black |
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21ff011
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There is a pleasure in being with them. Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.
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Holly Black |
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cb8c66c
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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books
dark
gavriel
holly-black
literature
paranormal
paranormal-romance
romance
tana-bach
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
vampires
ya
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Holly Black |
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d51ac7a
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I've wanted this and feared it, and now that it's happening, I don't know how I will ever want anything else.
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Holly Black |
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e2ac0fc
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It's disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.
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Holly Black |
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92706ea
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You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to."
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Holly Black |
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faffc71
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I thought I was playing the game of pissing off people who hated me already and eating the consequences.
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Holly Black |
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7309e0d
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Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag's carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst.
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Holly Black |
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8c1656c
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When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?
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Holly Black |
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0c1a7d0
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Sometimes," Sam says, "I can't tell when you're lying." "I never lie," I lie."
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Holly Black |
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8a71a48
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Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself."
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Holly Black |
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c024a40
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As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach. KILL THE CHILD
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callum-hunt
kill
magisterium
the-iron-trial
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Holly Black |
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fb22702
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I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?
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books
dark
gavriel
holly-black
paranormal-romance
tana
tana-bach
teens
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
ya
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Holly Black |
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ac70af6
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She is crazy. Head to head with an ogre. Loony Lolli, Sketchy Dave, Crazy Val. You're all a bunch of freaks." Val made a formal bow, dipping her head in their direction, and then sat on the blanket. Loony Luis, more likely," Lolli said, kicking her flip-flop in his direction. Luis One-Eye," Dave said. Luis smirked. "Bug-head Dave." Princess Luis," Dave said. "Prince Valiant." Val laughed, thinking of the first time Dave had called her that...
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Holly Black |
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4d483fa
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His mouth curls into a smile. His eyes shine with wicked intent. "Look at them all, your subjects. A shame not a one knows who their true ruler is."
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Holly Black |
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8e3ecfd
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Nicasia's wrong about me. I don't desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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ea52bf8
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Don't." She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. "You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you're never going to bullshit your way into my heart again."
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Holly Black |
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4af2eff
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When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court isn't busy drinking poison, then it's drinking bile.
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Holly Black |
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702c31b
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Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you." "What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy." "I'm crazy," he reminded her."
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Holly Black |
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85d6a04
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They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows.
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Holly Black |
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7c967c3
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.
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Holly Black |
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cf977f3
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There's something easy about the idea that vampirism is some kind of disease- then they can't help it if they attack us, that they commit murders and atrocities, that they can only control themselves sometimes. They're sick; its not their fault. And there's something even easier about the idea of demonic invasion, something forcing our loved ones to do all manner of terrible things. Still not their fault, only now we can destroy them. But t..
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Holly Black |
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311e5fc
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If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone." --
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dark
life
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Holly Black |
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b32a64c
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For a moment, there is silence between us. He takes a step toward me. "The other night--" I cut him off. "I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system." "And is it?" he asks. "Out of your system?" I look him in the face and lie. "Yes." If he touches me, if he even takes another step toward me, my deceit will be exposed. I don't think I can keep the longing off my face. Instead, to my relief, he gives a thin-lipped n..
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longing
sex
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Holly Black |
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b99c19f
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Sharpen your heart.
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dark
elfham
faerie
fantasy
fiction
hollow-hall
jude
prince-cardan
young-adult
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Holly Black |
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45bb34d
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I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven't been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I've been fighting my own shadow.
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Holly Black |
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271ab51
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That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.
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Holly Black |
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82f2ba7
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Why am I the way I am?" His tone makes it clear he's proposing something I might suggest he ask, not really wondering about it. "There are no real answers, Jude. Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie."
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creulty
powerful
powerless
prince
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Holly Black |
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783a574
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Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it's a good technique.
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Holly Black |
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84f9de2
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The funny thing about good people--people like Daneca--is that they really honestly don't get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she's accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just l..
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Holly Black |
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3a93c10
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Sometimes, life just sucked. "Bite me," she muttered. "Okay, where?" Deke asked, then went on. "Never mind. I've got some enticing ideas of my own."
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Shayla Black |
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211b44e
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The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.
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memory
past
present-moment
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Cara Black |
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d113aa3
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You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter."
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Holly Black |