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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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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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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4
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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.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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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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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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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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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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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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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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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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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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