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daf7997
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I don't have the words. I want to touch her, but I don't deserve it.
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Holly Black |
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0664d8b
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The big question of vampires, the question that hunts governments and individuals alike, the question that bug me every night when I see their red eyes watching citizens of Coldtown the ways hungry cats watch fishin a bucket is: what are they? Are they diseased or demonic? Are they humans who have become ill, deserving hospitals and care, as some have argued? Or are they the bodies of our loved ones animated by some dark force that we ought..
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Holly Black |
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ef37570
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I said ten years, but perhaps seven will be enough. That's not so long. Seven years of drinking poison, of never sleeping, of living on high alert. Seven more years, and then maybe Faerie will be a safer, better land. And I will have earned my place in it. The great game, Locke had called it when he accused me of playing it. I wasn't then, but I am now. And maybe I learned something from Locke. He made me into a story, and now I am going to..
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Holly Black |
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ff7805e
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Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. "Not everybody wakes up right after."
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Holly Black |
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4d79b27
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It's hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He's smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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Holly Black |
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6dc9f0f
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings. She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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Holly Black |
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2968435
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I hope to be able to decide for myself - when we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it that something inside of us has been released?
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Holly Black |
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572b867
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Ben was taking her through the storm of grief. He was singing her through the rage and despair. He was singing her through the terrible loneliness, because there was no way to shut off grief, no way to cast it aside or fight against it. The only way to end grief was to go through it. As she realized that, 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 lon..
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Holly Black |
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ce31374
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I don't imagine myself back in a life like theirs; what I imagine is going over there and scaring them until they cry. I would never, of course. I mean, I don't think I would.
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Holly Black |
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c09387c
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Your family is badass," Sam says. "They set a high bar of badassery."
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Holly Black |
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8a6577f
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Instead, I try to imagine someone she might fall in love with. Maybe it will be a merrow, and he will give her the gift of breathing underwater and a crown of pearls and take her to his bed under the sea. Actually, that sounds amazing. Maybe I am making all the wrong choices.
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Holly Black |
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17f2ec0
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Of course, that was probably a problem with being an Evil Overlord. You didn't regret the right things.
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Holly Black |
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98a1f8d
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Get down here before you're recognized." "Playing hide-and-seek under the table? Crouching in the dirt? Typical of your kind, but far beneath my dignity." He laughs unsteadily, like he expects I am going to laugh, too. I don't. I ball up my fist and punch him in the stomach, right where I know it will hurt. He staggers to his knees. The goblet drops to the dirt, making a hollow clanking sound. "Ow!" he shouts, and lets me tug him under th..
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the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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be9564f
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Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long."
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Holly Black |
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ca5c506
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Kiss me until I am sick of it.
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Holly Black |
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b0b7360
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She fell asleep like a flame being extinguished.
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Holly Black |
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f19d0f8
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Nice things don't happen in storybooks,' Taryn says. 'Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.
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fantasy-young-adult
holly-black
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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efa1f5e
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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."
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holly-black
prince-cardan
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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4690eaa
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I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.
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Holly Black |
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5236d4b
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I do not understand why he likes me, but it is exciting to be liked.
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Holly Black |
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81dce85
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She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, so covered in blood that she hadn't remembered his features, hadn't remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughing, endlessly laughing. Mad as a dog. Mad as a god.
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Holly Black |
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a2cdde6
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It was as if whatever demon possessed them, whatever force kept their corpses from the grave, had refined them in the blaze of its power, burning away their humanity to reveal something finer.
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Holly Black |
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ba06791
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I left mad behind a long time ago. The world is the way it is. I can only fix my little piece of it.
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Holly Black |
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8cd1e2d
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Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.' He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?' It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer.
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wanderlust
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Holly Black |
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2ae14a3
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Adventuring turned out to be boring. Zach thought back to all the fantasy books he'd read where a team of questers traveled overland, and realized a few things. First he'd pictured himself with a loyal steed that would have done most of the walking, so he hadn't anticipated the blister forming on his left heel or the tiny pebble that seemed to have worked its way under his sock, so that even when he stripped off his sneaker he couldn't find..
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humorous
reality
fantasy
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Holly Black |
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13b63b3
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I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this.
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jude
oath
prince-dain
the-queen
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Holly Black |
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3c8c03c
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No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.
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Holly Black |
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6470ec5
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I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone--truly gone beneath the waves--I hated myself as I never have before.
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wicked-king
jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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482f1c3
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He heard Tamara scream his name, and Jasper yell, "We're supposed to stay here," but Call didn't slow. He was going to be the apprentice that Aaron thought he was, the one who there was nothing wrong with. He was going to do the kind of things that got you mysterious heroic achievements on your wristband. He was going to throw himself right into the fray. He tripped over a loose stone, fell, and rolled to the bottom of the hill, banging his..
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9aac367
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Cardan's eyebrows rise, but he has all the appearance of blissful unconcern. "My lady, you flatter me. I had no idea you were interested." Her gaze is unflinching as she passes her gift to one of Cardan's personal guard. "May you grow into the wisdom of your counselors." "The fervent prayer of many," he says."
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prayer
wisdom
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Holly Black |
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d638aff
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After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing.
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Holly Black |
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ea56645
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Apparently you can do lots of things very skilfully while asleep, Mr. Sharpe, but attending my class does not seem to be one of them.
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Holly Black |
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d4101d3
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Each of you will have a chance to play it, and whosoever plays most sweetly, you will have it. For art is more than virtue or vice.
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virtue
vice
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Holly Black |
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d157c65
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Ah! A lady of mystery! My very favorite kind.
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locke
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Holly Black |
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0340717
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He leans in and closes his eyes. "Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop." I am shocked into silence."
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Holly Black |
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3da9267
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Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
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Holly Black |
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98ec72b
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As I make my way back to the tournament and my sisters, I can't stop thinking of Cardan's shocked face, nor can I stop considering Locke's smile. I am not altogether sure which is more thrilling and which more dangerous.
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Holly Black |
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ea51c41
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Marry me," he says. "Become the Queen of Elfhame."
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Holly Black |
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d240676
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But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them."
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Holly Black |
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3119307
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Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious.
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Holly Black |
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3d55df0
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He closed his eyes. ' ' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations.
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Holly Black |
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07aa645
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Jack looked surprised when she stumbled upon him, which was odd, because he was almost never caught off guard. As his mother once said about him, Jack could hear the thunder before the lightning bothered to strike.
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Holly Black |
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e5f8fcb
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Hazel kissed boys for all kinds of reasons -- because they were cute, because she was a little drunk, because she was bored, because they let her, because it was fun, because they looked lonely, because it blotted out her fears for a while, because she wasn't sure how many kisses she had left.
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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 |