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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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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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

Holly Black

Games, Lost, Ifs

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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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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

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End Of The World, Ends, Jokes

Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.176, Hachette UK

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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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Believe, Monsters, Safe

Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.184, Hachette UK

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Every plan is a house of cards.

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House Of Cards, House, Cards

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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 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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Dream, Vampire, Pages

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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

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Expression, Pages, Lasts

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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.

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Vampire, Littles, Ought

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

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Cat, Voice, Delight

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

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Looks, Keep Going

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

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Mistake, Thinking, Kind

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

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

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Crush, Hate, Admitting

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Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.

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Father, Farewell, Cutting

Holly Black (2013). “The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories”, p.211, Small Beer Press

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Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns? Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you? Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way. Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?

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Fall, Hair, Cells

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I don't lie," I lied.

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Lying, Lied, Don't Lie

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You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

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Cat, House, Leopards

Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.

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Fall, Angel, Thinking

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Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

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Poodles, Remember, Quip

Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

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Crutches, Curse

Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

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Memories, Giving, People

Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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