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007f59a
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Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.
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Holly Black |
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db6832d
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Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.
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conspiracies
hidden
lies
secrets
sharing-secrets
truth
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Holly Black |
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1e8ad3a
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Every day that I don't beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don't back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he's throwing everything he's got at someone as weak as I am and it's not working. He's going to take himself down.
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Holly Black |
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42d1d84
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Then her mouth is sliding against mine. Her lips open, soft and yielding. Our teeth click together, and she tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.
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Holly Black |
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b7ad4a5
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We may not die from age, but we grow weary with it.
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heir
kingdom
prince
throne
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Holly Black |
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5e09694
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Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment. "No" I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. "Tell me."
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jude
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Holly Black |
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eef3cb2
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You said that you thought Queen Orlagh was waiting for an advantage to declare war. Instead, I think she is trying a new ruler--one she hopes she can trick or replace with another indebted to her. She thinks me young and feckless and means to take my measure." "So what?" I ask. "Our choice is to endure her games, no matter how deadly, or engage in a war we cannot win?" Cardan shakes his head and drinks another cup of tea. "We show her that ..
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game
replace
right
trick
war
young
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Holly Black |
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03d1570
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Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom
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dangerous
dark
enemies
faerie
fiction
jude
prince-cardan
young-adult
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Holly Black |
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1628bb1
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People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void.
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Holly Black |
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b349aac
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His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.
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Holly Black |
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18332ca
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Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.
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readers
reading
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Holly Black |
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c90de43
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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Holly Black |
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8c91248
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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faeries
faery
fairyland
fay
the-night-market
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Holly Black |
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5e24c7c
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You can't!" Aaron said. "Didn't you hear anything I just told you? You could die! " Well, don't kill me," Call said. "How about our goal is not to die. Both of us. Not dying. Together."
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Holly Black |
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fee373b
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Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel"
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beautiful
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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f1c963d
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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. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you've fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you'd s..
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Holly Black |
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c78df74
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Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother.
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Holly Black |
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2103bf0
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God, I hate you," she says. "So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks."
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Holly Black |
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a3600dc
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Prince Balekin smiles back as though their smiles could duel without the rest of them even being involved.
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Holly Black |
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f5847f5
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I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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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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2cf0a14
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That's the spirit." Aaron hid a grin. He was already wearing his armband, just above his elbow. Somehow he managed to make it look cool. Call had tied his around his forearm and was fairly sure it looked like a bandage." --
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iron-trial
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Holly Black |
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878bc68
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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
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Holly Black |
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44f182d
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What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?
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Holly Black |
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caa65b1
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Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?
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Holly Black |
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f9921e8
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As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.
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Holly Black |
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43f547f
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You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it.
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jude-duarte
prince-cardan
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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b16ad9b
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He stares at me in blankly. "Are you accusing me of not caring for your sister?" he asks. "If I truly believed you didn't care for Taryn, we wouldn't be having this conversation." He gives a long sigh. "Because you'd murder me?" "If you're playing with Taryn, Madoc will murder you; I won't even get a chance." I sheath my knife and head toward the door. "Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murde..
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family
murder
surprised
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Holly Black |
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c3e8a6a
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There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.
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love
relationships
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Holly Black |
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46da1d6
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A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.
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roiben
seelie-queen
tithe
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Holly Black |
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b7d7a1c
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Call and Tamara screamed. The car swerved, Call's hands heedless on the wheel. That made Tamara scream even harder. All the screams woke Jasper and Aaron, who added their voices to the screaming. Havoc started to bark. Throughout all the commotion, Master Rufus just floated in the center of the car, looking annoyed and - translucent.
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Holly Black |
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0ef2444
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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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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cd75d0c
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There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.
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lies
lying
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Holly Black |
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42da48b
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You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
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betrayal
family
guilt
guilty
love
rue
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Holly Black |
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275b616
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They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people.
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Holly Black |
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6d6e007
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I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse
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Holly Black |
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310cb13
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Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?" Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. "Could you guys try to lay low?"
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Holly Black |
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3ed97e7
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What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.
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Holly Black |
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8b39ced
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So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job."
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Holly Black |
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de1c943
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You don't know what you are.
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Holly Black |
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91e7a2c
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As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.
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Holly Black |
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bd3513e
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she wanted him to feel like she did, like he'd done something forbidden, wanted to give him something he'd like and really wasn't supposed to have, something that would feel wrong, something he wanted. "Kiss me again," she whispered, reaching up, her fingers sliding through his hair. She almost didn't know herself as she moved against him. He bent helplessly toward her. She bit her tongue. Bit it hard, the pain chasing through her nerve end..
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Holly Black |
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c2b9ac8
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Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call's eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring at them -- Tamara looking shocked, and Aaron, standing near her, started to laugh. Call was pretty sure Aaron was laughing at the fact that Call, having no idea where to put his hands, was waving his arms around like a squid underwater.
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Holly Black |
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59eb9f5
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I try not to be too conscious of his long fingers tracing over the paper, of the sick thrill I get when he looks at me.
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Holly Black |
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3437fb5
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I step out of my second life the same way I stepped out of my first, holding too few things and with great uncertainty about what will happen next.
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Holly Black |