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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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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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You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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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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Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.
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She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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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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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.
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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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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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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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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4
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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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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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Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long.
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A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.
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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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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
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I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Holly Black
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Born:
November 10, 1971
(age 52)
Known for:
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (2002)
The Iron Trial (2014)
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (2013)
The Darkest Part of the Forest (2015)
Doll Bones (2013)
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