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Changing is what people do when they have no options left.Holly Black
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.Holly Black
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.Holly Black
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This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.Holly Black
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Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk." They're for you."" You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?Holly Black
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.Holly Black
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I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.Holly Black
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.Holly Black
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Magic gives you a lot of choices, " Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.Holly Black
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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.Holly Black
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The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.Holly Black
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I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.Holly Black
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I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.Holly Black
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If you keep it, " Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.Holly Black
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, " he said. "Midnight is for regrets.Holly Black
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I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.Holly Black
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.Holly Black
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Mutually assured destruction.Holly Black