Holly Black Short Quotes

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Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

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

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I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

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That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them.

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Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

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There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.

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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

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If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

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

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Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

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More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

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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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No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

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He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

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Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

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We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.

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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

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Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

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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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I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

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