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9372fc8
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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 you, no one at all.
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Holly Black |
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fb4fa9c
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That's what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down
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Holly Black |
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7fd66bc
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And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.
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Holly Black |
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0d56bca
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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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Holly Black |
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d0a3d20
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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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Holly Black |
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6380b82
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We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.
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fear
safety
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Holly Black |
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77ae687
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Tell me again what you said at the revel," he says, climbing over me, his body against mine. "What?" I can barely think. "That you hate me," he says, his voice hoarse. "Tell me that you hate me." "I hate you," I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you." He kisses me harder. "I hate you," I breathe into his mouth. ..
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hate
enchantment
kisses
revel
oblivion
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Holly Black |
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20563fc
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Kill him before he makes you love him.
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Holly Black |
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c46e59b
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Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
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pretty-things
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Holly Black |
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02d061f
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.
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lying
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Holly Black |
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8ecad95
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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tana
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Holly Black |
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07db2f5
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We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.
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love
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Holly Black |
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5fc3b7b
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But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline strike of lightning, like the moment when you've swum too far out in the sea and there is no going back, only cold black water closing over your head.
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lust
holly-black
the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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1d348ea
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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Holly Black |
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c96b4fe
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I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.
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good
life
choices
guilt
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Holly Black |
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c608bad
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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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Holly Black |
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429dd22
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But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.
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Holly Black |
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c7fa9d7
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I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath."
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holly
valiant
faerie
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Holly Black |
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15d9d30
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No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court." "Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can."
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Holly Black |
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72d0927
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This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy."
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movie-reference
zombies
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Holly Black |
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2e634ef
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That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them.
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Holly Black |
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74db446
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They wore their strange beauty like war paint.
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beauty
strength
cold
strange
different
unique
strong
vampire
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Holly Black |
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ebcc604
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There's always something left to lose.
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Holly Black |
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96609ee
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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Holly Black |
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36342df
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They say that nameless things change constantly--that names fix them in place like pins.
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Holly Black |
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4429c9e
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Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You are a tiny tiny killing machine." Daneca coos. "What's she doing?" I ask. "Purring!" says Daneca. She sounds delighted. "Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, you are."
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Holly Black |
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610b9c9
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I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.
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love-quotes
love
the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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a6f8feb
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He's flint, you're tinder.
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love-story
flame
taryn
lust
power
the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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d2cf72c
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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shaping
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Holly Black |
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23b8546
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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crippled
flaws
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Holly Black |
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7bceefb
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The only way to end grief was to go through it.
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Holly Black |
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696475f
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Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.
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fae
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Holly Black |
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5358932
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Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?"
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Holly Black |
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dd9ba97
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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.
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root-beer
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Holly Black |
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f2da6b4
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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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tana
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Holly Black |
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7d536e2
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Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof."
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Holly Black |
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0b5010f
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People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion l..
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life
lives
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Holly Black |
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aadef69
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But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choic..
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Holly Black |
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2e9011e
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There you are," Cardan says as I take my place beside him. "How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversation about how my head is going to find itself on a spike."
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fantasy
i-love-them
sarcastic
holly-black
jude
faeries
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Holly Black |
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235eef9
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You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.
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Holly Black |
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084a9bd
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Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.
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Holly Black |
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25aefa8
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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Holly Black |
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8aa9520
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The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.
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possessiveness
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Holly Black |
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116550a
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I stand in front of my window and imagine myself a fearless knight, imagine myself a witch who hid her heart in her finger and then chopped her finger off.
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Holly Black |