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You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?" He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face." You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but.. I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that." Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?" He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that you feel for me as I do for you, " he said, his voice like a sigh against her throat. And how is that?" she asked, her lips so close to his jaw that she could taste the salt of his skin when she moved them. You carried my heart in your hands tonight, " he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that." She smiled and let her eyes drift closed. They lay there together, under the bridge, city lights burning outside the windows like a sky full of falling stars, as they slid off into sleep .Holly Black
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.Holly Black
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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.Holly Black
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Some things exist whether you believe in them or notHolly Black
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So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire."" I don't want to be - , " she started, but he held up his hand." I know you're very brave, " he said." Or stHolly Black
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A stray dog, I might understand, " she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry, " Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all, " Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.Holly Black
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Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.Holly Black