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cb913b1
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She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends.
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Holly Black |
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39660fd
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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Holly Black |
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a0f1099
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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Holly Black |
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3ad5143
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You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage." --
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Holly Black |
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cff1398
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I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent."
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Holly Black |
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35b5d26
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Sam frowns at me, suddenly serious. "You know, I thought--for most of the first year we lived together--that you were going to kill me." That makes me nearly spit out beer, I laugh so hard. "No, look--living with you, it's like knowing there's a loaded gun on the other side of the room. You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat." That only makes me laugh harder. "Shut up," he says. "You might do normal stuff, but a leopard..
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Holly Black |
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411086e
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I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh, no." I take a sip of coffee and wince. It was ridiculously strong. My grandfather shoves a strip of bacon in his mouth with a grin. "Guess it would have been kind of weird if we'd had the same dream." I roll my eyes. "Well, you'd better not tell me anything else. Don't ruin the surprise in case I have it tonight."
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Holly Black |
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7de90f1
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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Holly Black |
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dafb51d
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This is absurd. This is awful. This isn't how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit.
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Holly Black |
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b680d14
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Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.
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holly black |
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ddf4e2f
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Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.
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Holly Black |
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daa3bee
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Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye
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Holly Black |
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0da77ae
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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poetry
valiant
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Holly Black |
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And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.
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Holly Black |
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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams - will be sweeter than another's cries of love.
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tana
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Holly Black |
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They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they'd loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her yellow dress. They loved him as they loved the Eleventh Doctor with his bow tie and his flippy hair and the Tenth Doctor with his mad laugh. They loved him as they loved lead singers of bands and ac..
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david-tennant
eleventh-doctor
matt-smith
tenth-doctor
doctor-who
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Holly Black |
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83f6cf5
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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Holly Black |
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a7ac17d
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I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment."
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dark
friends
humor
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Holly Black |
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669fab5
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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faery
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Holly Black |
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9ff58f5
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There is something of yours I would like to return to you." "What?" He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own. Her eyes fluttered closed and her lips parted easily as she felt the kiss sizzling through her nerves, rendering her thoughts to smoke. "Um..." Kaye stepped make, a little unsteadily. "Why does that belong to me?" "That was the kiss I stole from you when you were enchanted," he said patiently. "Oh..
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Holly Black |
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We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.
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Holly Black |
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Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not tr..
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Holly Black |
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eafcfec
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You got a lot of ladies to get through. You're still young. First love's the sweetest, but it doesn't last." "Not ever?" I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. "When we fall that first time, we're not really in love with the girl. We're in love with being in love. We've got no idea what she's really about--or what she's capable of. We're in love with our idea of her ..
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So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." " stupid. Brave Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how." --
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learned
terrible
stupid
teaching
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Holly Black |
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Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which.
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Holly Black |
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be33765
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You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you."
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love
tana
gavriel
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526b1e6
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I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I cou..
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Holly Black |
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deee2f4
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Ruthless. That's my girl.
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Holly Black |
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64408f6
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You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see."
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Holly Black |
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2bcf897
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He stares at me as though I am a stranger, but I have never felt less like one. For the first time, we are both unmasked.
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Holly Black |
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57c61b1
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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Holly Black |
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Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?"
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humor
hilarious
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Holly Black |
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89fdfc7
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Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me. "We would be surprised to find that," I call back."
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Holly Black |
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a0167cb
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One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.
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Holly Black |
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She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally."
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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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Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out.
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monsters
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Holly Black |
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Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
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Holly Black |
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Gifts are very useful to con men. Gifts create a feeling of debt, an itchy anxiety that the recipient is eager to be rid of by repaying. So eager, in fact, that people will often overpay just to be relieved of it. A single spontaneously given cup of coffee can make a person feel obligated to sit through a lecture on a religion they don't care about. The gift of a tiny, wilted flower can make the recipient give to a charity they dislike. Gif..
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Holly Black |
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Our eyes meet, and something dangerous sparks. I remind myself. "Kiss me again," he says, drunk and foolish. "Kiss me until I am sick of it." I feel those words, feel them like a kick to the stomach. He sees my expression and laughs, a sound full of mockery. I can't tell which of us he's laughing at. After a moment, his eyes flutter closed. His voice falls to a whisper, as though he's talking to himself. "If you're the sickness, I suppose ..
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want
kiss
hate
drunk
desire
sickness
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Holly Black |
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2c71057
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Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.
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secrets
junk
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Holly Black |
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07bd6a8
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Being infected, being a vampire, it' s always you. Maybe it' s more you than ever before. It' s you as you always were, deep down inside.
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Holly Black |
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de6f3d7
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They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either.
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Holly Black |
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48c79a5
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She wants me to take out Patton." Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?" "No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple."
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Holly Black |
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02173f0
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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." --
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