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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants. (Holly Black)
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. View quote
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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? View quote
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If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone. View quote
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But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked. Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot. View quote
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It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt. After all, hell is supposed to be hot. View quote
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You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to. View quote
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Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you." "What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy." "I'm crazy," he reminded her. View quote
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I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have. View quote
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The only way to end grief was to go through it. View quote
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There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home. (Holly Black)
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves. View quote
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All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't. View quote
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Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting. View quote
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We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far. View quote
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Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke. View quote
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Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. View quote
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You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies. View quote
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Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry. View quote
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If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up. View quote
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Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which. (Holly Black)
It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected. View quote
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They wore their strange beauty like war paint. View quote
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She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. View quote
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They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either. View quote
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