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1ff5829
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If he thought I was bad, I would be worse. If he thought I was cruel, I would be horrifying.
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Holly Black |
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3cb5bb8
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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Holly Black |
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073b5fd
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Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.
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throne
power
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Holly Black |
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f683289
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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sensitive
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Holly Black |
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7c531a5
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There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home.
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hazel-evans
holly-black
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Holly Black |
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a219000
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Madoc once told me, making me lift a sword again and again.
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weight
strong
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Holly Black |
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762a294
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Can't get away from your own self.
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Holly Black |
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7d07435
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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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Holly Black |
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8700d32
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We don't need to be good. But let's try to be fair.
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goodness
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Holly Black |
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de97756
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I hate you," I breathed into his mouth. "I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else."
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Holly Black |
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9548fcb
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Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.
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Holly Black |
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b20203a
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And elsewhere in the woods, there is another party, one taking place inside a hollow hill, full of night-blooming flowers. There, a pale boy plays a fiddle with newly mended fingers while his sister dances with his best friend. There, a monster whirls about, branches waving in time with the music, There, a prince of the Folk takes up the mantle of king, embracing a changeling like a bother, and, with a human boy at his side, names a girl hi..
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Holly Black |
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aa6f978
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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Holly Black |
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23660eb
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I don't lie," I lied."
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Holly Black |
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875d690
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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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tana
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Holly Black |
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611dccf
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He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him.
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Holly Black |
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63270c4
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Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad."
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magic
curse-workers
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Holly Black |
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138bf3a
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I am tired of caring," I say. "Why should I?" "Because they could kill you!" "They better," I say to her. "Because anything less than that isn't going to work."
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Holly Black |
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99d200b
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If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure.
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Holly Black |
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b661149
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So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. "And if I said nothing at all?" "Then I would point out that sometimes, if you look at something out of the corner of your eye, you can see right through glamour," she returned. That brought surprised laughter. "What a relief to us both then that I am actually wearing ..
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roiben
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Holly Black |
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d71e2cf
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He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours."
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jude
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Holly Black |
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851ea51
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I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.
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Holly Black |
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5a928b3
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We got it." Val grinned and lifted her fist. "Wonder twin powers activate!" Ruth grinned back, knocking her fist into Val's. "Shape of two fucking lunatics."
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holly
twins
valiant
faerie
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Holly Black |
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4cf1b66
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His eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop myself from making embarrassing noises. It's more intimate than the way he's touching me, to be looked at like that. I hate that he knows what he's doing and I don't. I hate being vulnerable. I hate that I throw my head back, baring my throat. I hate the way I cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last..
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sex
hate
love
like
vulnerable
intimacy
pleasure
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Holly Black |
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d1b60ec
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Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns? Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you? Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way. Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?
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Holly Black |
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431dad6
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No matter how careful I am, eventually I'll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.
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Holly Black |
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4b27f88
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Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has.
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holly-black
the-cruel-prince
jude
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Holly Black |
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2ab5d1e
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I promise I will repay you." "Oh yeah?" she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet and plain, dark clothes. "With what?" The smile stayed on his lips. "Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of things long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief."
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promise
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Holly Black |
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facffbb
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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Holly Black |
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a063230
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The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.
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life
love
regret
hopeless
sad
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Holly Black |
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9da7da9
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The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.
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lesson
humans
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Holly Black |
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2f552ef
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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dark
friends
motives
deceit
lie
sad
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Holly Black |
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bce7207
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So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Holly Black |
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0cce164
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The point of a fight is not to have a good fight, it's to win.
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win
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Holly Black |
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dee9892
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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 the 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.
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Holly Black |
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871deb0
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You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?" He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face."You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but... I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that." Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?" He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that yo..
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hope
love
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Holly Black |
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50dea69
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Some promises aren't worth keeping.
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Holly Black |
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c3b3381
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.
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Holly Black |
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0cab2f1
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Holly Black |
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3e3916a
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I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him.
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Holly Black |
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bf60b29
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You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour."
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Holly Black |
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b86afba
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If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?"
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Holly Black |
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9d0ea68
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But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked. Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot."
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Holly Black |
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30a25b0
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Don't be drinking the Haterade.
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Holly Black |