HBHolly Black

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Holly Black

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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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02Undated

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

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03Undated

Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

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04Undated

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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05Undated

Adventuring turned out to be boring. Zach thought back to all the fantasy books he'd read where a team of questers traveled overland, and realized a few things. First he'd pictured himself with a loyal steed that would have done most of the walking, so he hadn't anticipated the blister forming on his left heel or the tiny pebble that seemed to have worked its way under his sock, so that even when he stripped off his sneaker he couldn't find it.He hadn't thought about how hot the sun would be either. When he put together his bunch of provisions, he never thought about bringing sunblock. Aragorn never wore sunblock. Taran never wore sunblock. Percy never wore sunblock. But despite all that precedent for going without, he was pretty sure his nose would be lobster-red the next time he looked in the mirror.He was thirsty, too, something that happened a lot in books, but his dry throat bothered him more than it had ever seemed to bother any character.And, unlike in books where random brigands and monsters jumped out just when things got unbearably dull, there was nothing to fight except for the clouds of gnats, several of which Zach was pretty sure he'd accidentally swallowed.

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06Undated

Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.

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07Undated

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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08Undated

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

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09Undated

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

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10Undated

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

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11Undated

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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12Undated

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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13Undated

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

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14Undated

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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15Undated

Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel

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16Undated

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

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17Undated

I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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18Undated

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

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19Undated

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him.

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20Undated

In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.

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21Undated

please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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22Undated

His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.

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23Undated

In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

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24Undated

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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