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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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.
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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I don't lie, I lied.
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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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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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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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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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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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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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