Holly Black Quotes - Page 9

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• A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

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  Girl, Ozone, Perfume

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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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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  Past, Different, Constructs

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

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  Baby, Strong, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• It is my belief that books are living things.

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  Book, Belief, Living Things

  Holly Black (2013). “The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories”, p.150, Small Beer Press

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• It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

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  Crazy, Book, Talking

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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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  Littles, Trade, Contempt

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• Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

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  Drunk, Sound, Body

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

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  Said, Loses

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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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• Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

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  Doe, Way

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel' -Tana and Aidan-page 23-chapter 3

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  Names, Vampire, Pages

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• I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3

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  Trying, Pages, Chapters

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• She sits up. I can’t read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. “I didn’t think you were going to be here.” “I live here.

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  Thinking, Expression, Littles

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

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  Lying, People, Blame

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.

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  Glasses, Water, Creepy

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.

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  Men, Glasses, Magic

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

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  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Girl, Lying, Hate

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Ruthless. That’s my girl.

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  Girl, My Girl, Ruthless

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• Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

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  Beautiful, Strange, Possibility

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

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  Crazy, Back When

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.

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  Mother, Real, Kissing

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Sorry, Selfish, Upset

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

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  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.

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  Pain, Sorry, Lying

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