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58486a6
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said."
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Holly Black |
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d60f338
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Our promises don't matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.
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Holly Black |
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03735c9
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You could still be lying," says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. "Try her." "Your pardon?" Cardan says, drawing himself up, and the Roach seems to suddenly remember to whom he's speaking in such an offhanded way. "Don't be such a prickly rose, Your Majesty," the Roach says with a shrug and a grin. "I'm not giving you an order. I'm suggesting that if you tried to glamour Jude, we could find out the truth." Cardan sighs and walks toward me. I k..
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lying
glamour
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Holly Black |
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e6d3a1a
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And you want more holes because you think pain will distract you from all the annoying celebrating? Or because stabbing me will make you feel better?" "Something like that." She smiled enigmatically, went into the bathroom, and came out with a wad of cotton balls and a safety pin."
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Holly Black |
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2a5b53b
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It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time.
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c429ff5
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I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thin..
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900f8e0
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The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka. "To Zacharov!" one toasts. "To open hearts and open bars!" calls another. "And open legs," says Anton."
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Holly Black |
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bbf36ee
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More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.
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Holly Black |
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d1fed04
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You in trouble?" Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he's thinking about how to get out of here if I am."
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Holly Black |
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274cd11
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Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother's house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort.
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Holly Black |
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9fc1eab
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Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real.
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Holly Black |
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b6da56e
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All friendships are negotiations of power.
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power
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Holly Black |
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86038bf
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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Holly Black |
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265c4aa
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She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.
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romance
love
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Holly Black |
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5901209
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Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.
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normalcy
you-re-not-special
sad
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Holly Black |
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3258f1e
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It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it
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Holly Black |
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95b7703
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Guard your mortal heart.
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young-adult
dark
fantasy
cruel
dangerous
prince-cardan
jude
locke
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Holly Black |
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1b0ea17
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Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It'll cost you everything.
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Holly Black |
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058fff2
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It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of wate..
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eabced6
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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d0392da
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Maybe, Hazel decided, maybe they could both learn how. Not just making-up-stories-in-which-you're-happy happiness, but the real thing. She leaned across the bed and hugged him with all the strength in her limbs, hugged him until her bones ached. But no matter how hard she hugged him, she knew it would never be enough. "I promise," she whispered. "I'll try."
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Holly Black |
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5a14c6d
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She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.
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forbidden-pleasure
vampire
ya-lit
holly-black
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Holly Black |
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a4afbf3
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That's family for you. Can't live with them; can't murder them. Unless Barron rats me out to Yulikova. Then I really might.
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Holly Black |
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e584d1b
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She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here." "I live here."
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Holly Black |
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d893a66
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Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night.
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nature
children
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Holly Black |
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db8ddaf
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It was good to be hugged. Even by a monster.
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monster
vulnerability
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Holly Black |
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f32ba0e
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You think I don't deserve him," I say to Cardan. He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. "Oh no, I think you're perfect for each other."
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fantasy
fair-folk
tcp
holly-black
the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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786f691
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He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he might never see me again.
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Holly Black |
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7886c86
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Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.
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Holly Black |
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0f68f68
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When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.
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love
searching
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Holly Black |
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f01ddde
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That was how she felt, right then. As if there was too much of her, as if her skin was tight with muchness. She felt ripe to bursting.
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Holly Black |
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acb81ce
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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Holly Black |
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4a246b5
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Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.
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dark
books
monstrous
pearl
pearl-bach
tana-s-mother
wonderfully-awful
tana
tana-bach
holly-black
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
terror
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Holly Black |
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42ea1d6
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Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him."
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literature
dark
romance
books
gavriel
paranormal
paranormal-romance
tana-bach
holly-black
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
ya
vampires
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4ce670a
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Someone's really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?
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She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone." "And you know that how?" Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me. Still, the fragments sound ridiculous on their own. "She said so. In the park." He rolls his eyes. "Because the two of you were so friendly." "I guess she mistook me for someone else." I sound so much like Philip that it scares me. I can..
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Holly Black |
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a0340d2
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If you want my advice," he says slowly, "love doesn't grow well, fed on pain. Grant me that I know that at least."
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Holly Black |
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85b4691
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She came out of sleep like a thunderclap--waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.
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fear
tana-bach
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Holly Black |
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c35ec46
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I want to have some reaction. I want to tremble or feel nauseated. I want to be the person who begins to weep. I want to be anyone but the person I am, who looks around to be sure no one saw, who wipes off my knife in the dirt, wipes off my hand on his clothes, and gets out of there before the guards come.
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Holly Black |
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7125fc4
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Things will be as they always are," he tells me. "Only more so."
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fae
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Holly Black |
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8b92b6d
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What they don't realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by a man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do t..
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the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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a9f4613
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I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.
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the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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d938e5f
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Feels almost like real agent work, doesn't it?" Barron says as we walk down the street, heads bowed against the wind. "You know, if we caught your girlfriend committing a crime, I bet Yulikova would give us a bonus or something for being prize pupils." "Except that we're not going to do that," I say. "I thought you wanted us to be good guys." He grins a too-wide grin. He's enjoying needling me, and my reacting only makes it worse, but I c..
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Holly Black |
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bef8739
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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Holly Black |