Holly Black Quotes - Page 5

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• She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

  Holly Black

  Expression, Pages, Lasts

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• He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

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  Dirty, Hair, Giving

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.3, Hachette UK

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

  Holly Black

  Crush, Hate, Admitting

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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

  Holly Black

  Dream, Vampire, Pages

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• Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

  Holly Black

  Beloved, Dies

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• Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

  Holly Black

  Vampire, Littles, Ought

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.1, Hachette UK

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• They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

  Holly Black

  Mistake, Thinking, Kind

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

  Holly Black

  Cat, Voice, Delight

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• Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

  Holly Black

  Looks, Keep Going

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of water." He tries to say something. Brown powder dusts his shirt. "Also," I tell him, "that's decaf.

  Holly Black

  Coffee, Eye, Dust

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• Every plan is a house of cards.

  Holly Black

  House Of Cards, House, Cards

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• You are more dangerous than daybreak.

  Holly Black

  Dangerous, Daybreak

  "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown". Book by Holly Black, 2013.

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• I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

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  Good Day, Beer, Thinking

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• We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

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  Wind, Trying, Safe

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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.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Cry, Scream

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.217, Hachette UK

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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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  Thinking, Humanity, Damnation

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

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  Criminals, Honest

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

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• If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

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  Giving Up, Real, Father

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Death’s favorites don’t die.

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  Dies

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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.

  Holly Black

  Long, Long Life, Saved

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• You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

  Holly Black

  Way, Said, Grinning

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• If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

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  Enemy, Should, My Friends

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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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  Dream, Cutting, Blood

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, Hachette UK

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• The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Stupid, Home

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• One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

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  Night, Giving, Ask Me

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.48, Hachette UK

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