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One Quotes by Holly Black
- Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for…
- I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested…
- People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign…
- 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…
- Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you…
- So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact,…
- 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…
- Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden…
- I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
- 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…
- The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys…
- Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.
- You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank…
- Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient…
- Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually sawing…
- Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips…
- 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…
- At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we…
- 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 most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think…
- A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There…
- 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.…
- If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic,…
- Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
- One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.
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