For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything. by Holly Black

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

Holly Black

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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it wa... by Holly Black

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

end-of-the-world jokes ends

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good c... by Holly Black

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

good-choices choices sometimes

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

ifs games lost

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 crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

safe trying wind

Death’s favorites don’t die. by Holly Black

Death’s favorites don’t die.

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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 slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

tragedy mistake war

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.

bangs wall looks

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 birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.

kissing love-you sweet

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 as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

drunk trying looks

I need your help," says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.

cat voice sound

As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

decision two people

As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.

eye kings fall

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." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.

dawn sight past

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 are pouring shots of vodka. "To Zacharov!" one toasts. "To open hearts and open bars!" calls another. "And open legs," says Anton.

guy heart people

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

feel-good decision opportunity

I don't lie," I lied. by Holly Black

I don't lie," I lied.

dont-lie lied lying

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme yo... by Holly Black

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

schemes come-up knows

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. by Holly Black

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

leopards cat house

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting... by Holly Black

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

next waiting lying

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

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