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c7d5809
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lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here
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Holly Black |
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0617090
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.
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Holly Black |
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730ad52
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No, I cannot see myself serving Balekin.
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Holly Black |
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08a860b
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You shouldn't let it bother you," Drew said earnestly. "That's just babble. It doesn't mean anything. None of you are going to die and you're obviously not dead. For Pete's sake."
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Holly Black |
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9e5ba57
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By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms.
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Holly Black |
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b759d55
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because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice.
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Holly Black |
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7c4682f
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Is he going to- will he live?" "No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me." "Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay?"
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Holly Black |
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1f97bcc
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I love you," Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all. "I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss y..
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Holly Black |
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39684dc
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He would make out with girls in front of her. He would make out with boys in front of her. He would wink at her from across rooms, daring her to criticize him.
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Holly Black |
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b6b99e6
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At the window of my room, I catch my reflection in the glass. Shaggy black hair. Sneer.I look like a hungry ghost, glowering in at a world I am no longer fit to be a part of.
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Holly Black |
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de8728d
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It's just that Hazel is so--people like Hazel. Boys like Hazel. She goes through this world as if nothing touches her, as if no one can reach her, as though she's focused on something bigger and better and more important that she's not going to tell you a single thing about. It drives people crazy. It charms them.
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Holly Black |
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5a33e0c
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You're awful." He said it as though he was delighted. "And the worst part is that you believe otherwise."
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Holly Black |
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9de4945
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Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can
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jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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0a09cea
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I hope it unnerves them to know that I am lying. After all, if the insult to me is pointing out that I am mortal, then this is my riposte: I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.
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Holly Black |
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291a1a5
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Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth."
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Holly Black |
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5e6bdd0
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile."
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the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
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0a41b78
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I'm just surprised your parents let you go online," Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn't exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony."
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internet
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Cassandra Clare and Holly Black |
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438fff3
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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.
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Holly Black |
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8d389ec
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The flavor of that blood stayed with him through the long years of his service (...) by then he could no longer remember whose blood it was, only that he had grown used to the taste.
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Holly Black |
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5e6158f
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Sprites glitter in air that stinks of freshly spilled blood. The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.
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carelessness-of-people
corruption-politics
forgetfulness
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Holly Black |
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980006d
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You're terrible at this whole 'tell me whatever I want to know' thing." My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don't pick it up. He sighs. "Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?" He raises his brows."
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truth-telling
double-entendre
double-meaning
faeries
question
suggestive
tail
tale
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Holly Black |
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b05a530
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I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back."
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jude-duarte
villians
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Holly Black |
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f49b34c
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You can't be jealous of me. You don't have to live at the sufferance of the same person who murdered your parents. You don't have to stay angry because if you don't, there's a bottomless well of fear ready to open up under you." I stop speaking abruptly, surprised at myself. I said I wasn't going to be charmed, but I let him trick me into opening up to him."
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Holly Black |
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15a1ff3
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One of his hands slides over my stomach, tracing the shape of my skin. He kisses me again, and it's like falling off a cliff. Like a mountain slide, building momentum with every touch, until there is only destruction ahead. I have never felt anything like this.
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Holly Black |
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467ebd8
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I expect her to say The Liar. She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets. "What else? The Queen."
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Holly Black |
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a1f90fe
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Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing."
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Holly Black |
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423e54e
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Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a magician's apprentice or a pig keeper who might or might not be a king's son or a princess with a prophecy hanging over my head. But I could, maybe, somehow, be part of a community of artists who loved magic.
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speculative-fiction
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Holly Black |
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c7b2604
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We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.
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Holly Black |
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b95d629
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You're mixing your metaphors. It gives me a headache.
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Holly Black Cassandra Clare |
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0658409
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It was so strange to be touched so gently by a creature like him- a creature who looked just like the kind of boy who you might let touch your thigh for a totally different reason.
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Holly Black |
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ce7eb6d
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Girls love cat calendars.
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Holly Black Cassandra Clare |
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8497506
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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Holly Black |
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c4bf4cb
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They see themselves in you and are blinded.
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Holly Black |