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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Crush
Wanting
Especially
Hate
Things
Admitting

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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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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 need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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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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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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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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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.
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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
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