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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Possibility
Strange
Beautiful
Everything
Swollen
Possibilities

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I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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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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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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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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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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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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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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