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- And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
- Can't get away from your own self.
- Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of…
- Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from…
- 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…
- On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. “How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. “I…
- Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
- The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
- You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not."…
- His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her…
- I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that…
- 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…
- 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…
- She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was…
- Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
- I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and…
- There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest.…
- 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…
- But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
- Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
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