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d408f86	Manie sans delire - insanity without delusion.	insanity	Holly Black
f9fd604	A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die."	dog helping	Holly Black
bea0422	Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid."		Holly Black
ea991ca	Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row."		Holly Black
5d41731	This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you."		Holly Black
6d4f10b	I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.		Holly Black
0dbb1ab	The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.		Holly Black
017e509	You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game."		Holly Black
cf7c722	I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.		Holly Black
f84901a	You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people."		Holly Black
10d906b	In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television.		Holly Black
6d845bc	Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.		Holly Black
4f2b369	You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.		Holly Black
60c8fcd	I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.	destruction	Holly Black
5d6c6b2	Stop thinking," he said. I have to think," said val. "You said I was supposed to concentrate." Thinking makes you slow. You need to move as I move. Right now, you're merely following my lead." How can I know where you're going to go before you've gone there? That's stupid." It's no different from knowing where an opponent might move. How do you know where a ball is likely to go on the lacrosse field?" The only things you know about lacrosse..		Holly Black
21566e1	It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about.		Holly Black
bbd0c84	Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.	jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
b0ace89	There's something about her--Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling--terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits--or if she has any, she hasn't found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.		Holly Black
867bbee	Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.	love memory monster vampire	Holly Black
75eee34	A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.		Holly Black
499e0e7	in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.		Holly Black
0d8e8d8	There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from a ride With the Lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger.		Holly Black
2a6f53f	She can't help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I'm not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.		Holly Black
38a104a	After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.		Holly Black
488babe	You know how people are, always wanting the one thing they can't have.		Shayla Black
385e756	Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
8c7c35f	A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.		Holly Black
5c903a1	She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.		Holly Black
3002b4b	They were just buying time in scrapes and tatters.		Holly Black
d1ae59c	If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic -- even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind -- then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.		Holly Black
bfb1569	That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.		Holly Black Cassandra Clare
a91d449	She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.	contempt trade	Holly Black
384e3f9	People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.	death-and-dying dying	Holly Black
f6bdfd8	There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.		Holly Black
8bd8cdf	Three is an odd configuration of sisters. There's always one on the outside.		Holly Black
9ed36ff	Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.		Holly Black
a102af7	the light, by the light, by the light of the bloodred moon. I'll be killing you soon.		Holly Black
7f60eec	It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat."		Holly Black
a0ce0f4	I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.		Holly Black
0e58f98	I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.	family honor life loyalty mafia mob mobster pride protection	Holly Black
82d3568	Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"	beautiful books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
ceccb87	I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.	books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya	Holly Black
ebad8f4	I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.		Holly Black
8cbfe61	It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of."		Holly Black

Manie sans delire - insanity without delusion.

Holly Black

f9fd604

A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die."

dog helping

Holly Black

bea0422

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid."

Holly Black

ea991ca

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row."

Holly Black

5d41731

This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you."

Holly Black

6d4f10b

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

Holly Black

0dbb1ab

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

Holly Black

017e509

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game."

Holly Black

cf7c722

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

Holly Black

f84901a

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people."

Holly Black

10d906b

In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television.

Holly Black

6d845bc

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

Holly Black

4f2b369

You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.

Holly Black

60c8fcd

I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.

destruction

Holly Black

5d6c6b2

Stop thinking," he said. I have to think," said val. "You said I was supposed to concentrate." Thinking makes you slow. You need to move as I move. Right now, you're merely following my lead." How can I know where you're going to go before you've gone there? That's stupid." It's no different from knowing where an opponent might move. How do you know where a ball is likely to go on the lacrosse field?" The only things you know about lacrosse..

Holly Black

21566e1

It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about.

Holly Black

bbd0c84

Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

b0ace89

There's something about her--Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling--terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits--or if she has any, she hasn't found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.

Holly Black

867bbee

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

love memory monster vampire

Holly Black

75eee34

A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

Holly Black

499e0e7

in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.

Holly Black

0d8e8d8

There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from a ride With the Lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger.

Holly Black

2a6f53f

She can't help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I'm not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

Holly Black

38a104a

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

Holly Black

488babe

You know how people are, always wanting the one thing they can't have.

Shayla Black

385e756

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya

Holly Black

8c7c35f

A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

Holly Black

5c903a1

She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.

Holly Black

3002b4b

They were just buying time in scrapes and tatters.

Holly Black

d1ae59c

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic -- even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind -- then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

Holly Black

bfb1569

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

Holly Black Cassandra Clare

a91d449

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

contempt trade

Holly Black

384e3f9

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

death-and-dying dying

Holly Black

f6bdfd8

There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

Holly Black

8bd8cdf

Three is an odd configuration of sisters. There's always one on the outside.

Holly Black

9ed36ff

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.

Holly Black

a102af7

the light, by the light, by the light of the bloodred moon. I'll be killing you soon.

Holly Black

7f60eec

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat."

Holly Black

a0ce0f4

I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.

Holly Black

0e58f98

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

family honor life loyalty mafia mob mobster pride protection

Holly Black

82d3568

Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"

beautiful books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya

Holly Black

ceccb87

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya

Holly Black

ebad8f4

I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

Holly Black

8cbfe61

It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of."

Holly Black