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017e509
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You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game."
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Holly Black |
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cf7c722
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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Holly Black |
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f84901a
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people."
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Holly Black |
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10d906b
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In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television.
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Holly Black |
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6d845bc
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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Holly Black |
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4f2b369
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You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.
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Holly Black |
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60c8fcd
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I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.
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destruction
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Holly Black |
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5d6c6b2
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Stop thinking," he said. I have to think," said val. "You said I was supposed to concentrate." Thinking makes you slow. You need to move as I move. Right now, you're merely following my lead." How can I know where you're going to go before you've gone there? That's stupid." It's no different from knowing where an opponent might move. How do you know where a ball is likely to go on the lacrosse field?" The only things you know about lacrosse..
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Holly Black |
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21566e1
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It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about.
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Holly Black |
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bbd0c84
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Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.
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the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
jude-duarte
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Holly Black |
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b0ace89
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There's something about her--Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling--terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits--or if she has any, she hasn't found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.
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Holly Black |
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867bbee
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Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.
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love
monster
vampire
memory
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Holly Black |
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75eee34
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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Holly Black |
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499e0e7
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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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Holly Black |
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0d8e8d8
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There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from a ride With the Lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger.
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Holly Black |
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2a6f53f
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She can't help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I'm not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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Holly Black |
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38a104a
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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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Holly Black |
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385e756
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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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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8c7c35f
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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Holly Black |
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5c903a1
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She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.
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Holly Black |
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3002b4b
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They were just buying time in scrapes and tatters.
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Holly Black |
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d1ae59c
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If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic -- even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind -- then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.
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Holly Black |
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bfb1569
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That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.
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Holly Black Cassandra Clare |
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a91d449
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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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contempt
trade
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Holly Black |
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384e3f9
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People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.
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death-and-dying
dying
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Holly Black |
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f6bdfd8
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There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.
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Holly Black |
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8bd8cdf
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Three is an odd configuration of sisters. There's always one on the outside.
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Holly Black |
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9ed36ff
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Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.
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Holly Black |
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a102af7
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the light, by the light, by the light of the bloodred moon. I'll be killing you soon.
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Holly Black |
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7f60eec
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It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat."
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Holly Black |
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a0ce0f4
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I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.
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Holly Black |
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0e58f98
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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family
life
mob
mobster
pride
mafia
honor
protection
loyalty
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Holly Black |
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82d3568
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Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"
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literature
dark
romance
books
beautiful
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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ceccb87
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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.
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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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ebad8f4
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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Holly Black |
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8cbfe61
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It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of."
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Holly Black |
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ee93eba
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She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.
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Holly Black |
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38cb27a
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I've stripped my life down," he told me. "I don't need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here." He shot himself in the head with his fingers. "People don't understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they'll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there's nothing but me and the sky. A million billion s..
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Holly Black |
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ff0f231
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Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love."
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Holly Black |
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38416a9
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For I know that Death is a guest divine, Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine. --William Winter
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Holly Black |
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f29d24d
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything."
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Holly Black |
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ba57e7f
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That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.
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scars
faded-memory
monstrous
tana-s-mother
paranormal-romance
tana-bach
holly-black
the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
memory
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Holly Black |
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007f59a
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Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.
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Holly Black |
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db6832d
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Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.
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lies
truth
conspiracies
hidden
secrets
sharing-secrets
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Holly Black |