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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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.
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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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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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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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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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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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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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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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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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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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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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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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