Holly Black Quotes

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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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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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If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

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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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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman—taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

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She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. I didn't think you were going to be here. I live here.

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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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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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They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

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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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I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse

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You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

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Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

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He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

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