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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there." "We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't." "What are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" "Pretty much."
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dd7cc99
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Nicasia said that as mortal power grows, land and sea ought to be united. And that they would be, either in the way she hoped or the way I should fear." "Ominous," I say. "It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me."
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women
mortal
ominous
threaten
power
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Holly Black |
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98b7c6c
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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Holly Black |
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785bff2
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You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.
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Holly Black |
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c0b673c
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I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I'm sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I'm ridiculous. I get that you think I'm hilarious. I know, I get that you're mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know.
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ddd9262
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy.
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The Lady or The Tiger,' ... 'My lady, the tiger,
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Holly Black |
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cb6b069
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Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.
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900d0e1
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Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties. Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights. Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious.
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Holly Black |
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4ddab04
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Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.
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Holly Black |
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d7e131b
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I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
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trust
friendship
power
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c600499
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Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?"
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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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Holly Black |
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d55443c
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This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
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lies
life
truth
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Holly Black |
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ff912af
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There's people who do things and people who never do--who say they will someday, but they just don't. I want to go on a quest. I've always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I'm not backing down from it. I'm not going home until it's complete.
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Holly Black |
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86ffb48
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Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.
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Holly Black |
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5c80229
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Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.
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the-cruel-prince
jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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6b9f627
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It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time.
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Holly Black |
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00d6045
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It's sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.
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Holly Black |
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d085f93
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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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mad
dark
teen
monstrous
tana
sci-fi
gavriel
paranormal
paranormal-romance
tana-bach
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
insane
ya
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Holly Black |
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4b03631
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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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Holly Black |
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de525f0
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Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.
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Holly Black |
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20071e3
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It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall."
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Holly Black |
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fe72bd7
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I want to tell you so many lies
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Holly Black |
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333e952
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Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.
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Holly Black |
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0a89ce5
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How will I know when I've learned it, since I don't know it now?" he asks. The question sounds like a riddle. "Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one," I answer finally."
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Holly Black |
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77749e0
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Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong?
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Holly Black |
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f243ed0
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Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually."
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Holly Black |
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5a4395c
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine."
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white-cat
holly-black
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Holly Black |
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f613112
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It's shocking," he says, as though he's giving me some great compliment. "I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again."
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the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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7a8c596
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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Holly Black |
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f1096c3
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It's funny how you get under his skin." At first, I'm not sure I heard him right. I almost ask whom he's talking about, because I can't quite believe he's admitting that high and mighty Cardan is affected by anything. "Like a splinter?" I say. "Of iron. No one else bothers him quite the way that you do."
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Holly Black |
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9c14c2f
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You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to .
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Holly Black |
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d94787b
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I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.
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Holly Black |
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841de86
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?"
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Holly Black |
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df9e8e4
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Cardan's gaze catches mine, and I can't help the evil smile that pulls up the corners of my mouth. His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day.
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Holly Black |
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69a462a
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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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Holly Black |
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9e68fc3
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I swear to fucking God, I will spray you again,
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Holly Black |
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031cb52
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So, what did you think of the Unseelie Court?" A slow, wicked smile spread on his face. "Oh, Kaye," he breathed. "It was marvelous. It was perfect." She narrowed her gaze. "I was joking. They were killing things, Corny. For fun. Things like us." He didn't seem to hear her, his eyes looking past her to the bright window. "There was this knight, not yours. He ... " Corny shivered and seemed to abruptly change the direction of his sentence. "H..
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Holly Black |
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a25ec83
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my mortal father used to say, .
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wishes
horses
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Holly Black |
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21bab0f
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What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?
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Holly Black |
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ea55442
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.
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Holly Black |
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d16cacf
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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Holly Black |
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b5bb862
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I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.
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Holly Black |
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2038126
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Holly Black |