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01Undated

The only way to end grief was to go through it.

Holly Black / quote

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02Undated

Ben was taking her through the storm of grief. He was singing her through the rage and despair. He was singing her through the terrible loneliness, because there was no way to shut off grief, no way to cast it aside or fight against it. The only way to end grief was to go through it.As she realized that, his song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.

Holly Black / quote

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03Undated

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.

Holly Black / quote

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04Undated

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Holly Black / quote

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05Undated

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

Holly Black / quote

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06Undated

I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

Holly Black / quote

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07Undated

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.

Holly Black / quote

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08Undated

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.

Holly Black / quote

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09Undated

His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.

Holly Black / quote

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10Undated

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

Holly Black / quote

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11Undated

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

Holly Black / quote

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12Undated

It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

Holly Black / quote

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13Undated

Can't get away from your own self.

Holly Black / quote

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14Undated

We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside.

Holly Black / quote

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15Undated

He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to beat those long odds--that in the legend that would follow, they were going to be the nameless people that failed.

Holly Black / quote

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16Undated

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

Holly Black / quote

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17Undated

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

Holly Black / quote

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18Undated

Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye

Holly Black / quote

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19Undated

The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

Holly Black / quote

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20Undated

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

Holly Black / quote

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21Undated

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

Holly Black / quote

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22Undated

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

Holly Black / quote

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23Undated

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

Holly Black / quote

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24Undated

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

Holly Black / quote

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