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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.

Holly Black

Done With You, Wells, Being Afraid

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank with them. I have done things that I myself have difficulty reconciling—terrible things. But I have never known anyone like your mother. She is a person without limits—or if she has any, she hasn’t found them yet. She never needs to reconcile anything.

Holly Black

Mother, Men, Evil

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.

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Graves, Dare, Breaths

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

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War, Mistake, Tragedy

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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.

Holly Black

Crush, Heart, Epic

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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

Holly Black

Running, Misery, Spit

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It’s not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.

Holly Black

Eye, Phones, Cells

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.

Holly Black

Believe, Winning, Boys

Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

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Cutting, Boys, Noses

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Holly Black

Littles, Trade, Contempt

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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

Holly Black

Girl, Heart, Cutting

Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone." "And you know that how?" Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me. Still, the fragments sound ridiculous on their own. "She said so. In the park." He rolls his eyes. "Because the two of you were so friendly." "I guess she mistook me for someone else." I sound so much like Philip that it scares me. I can hear the menace in my tone. "Who?" Sam asks, not flinching. I force my voice back to normal. "Uh, the person who killed him.

Holly Black

Eye, Two, Voice

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The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka. "To Zacharov!" one toasts. "To open hearts and open bars!" calls another. "And open legs," says Anton.

Holly Black

Heart, People, Guy

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You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.

Holly Black

Past, Sight, Dawn

Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.

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Kings, Fall, Eye

Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

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Two, People, Decision

Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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I need your help," says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.

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Cat, Voice, Sound

Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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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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Drunk, Trying, Looks

Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.

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Sweet, Love You, Kissing

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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.

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People, Kind, Waitress

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

Holly Black

Queens, Long, Puppets

Holly Black (2008). “Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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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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Games, Blame, Gullible

Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

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Hurt, Realizing, Stills

Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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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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Fighting, Wish, Bed

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A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

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Queens, Short Life, Men

Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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