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    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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    Holly Black
    “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: cardan, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince
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    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
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    Holly Black
    “By you, I am forever undone.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan-greenbriar, love, romance
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    Holly Black
    “Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
    “No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
    "I can't.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: hideous, hideous-beauty, love, romance
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    Holly Black
    “Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: desire, drunk, foolish, kiss, sick, want
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    Holly Black
    “If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: fighting, hurting, pain
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    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: cardan-greenbriar, swoon
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    Holly Black
    “What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: jude
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    Holly Black
    “Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
    tags: clever, con, devil, lie, sexy, wit
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    Holly Black
    “Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
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    Holly Black
    “The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
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    Holly Black
    “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 wanting them.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
    tags: deep-thoughts
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    Holly Black
    “The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”
    ― Holly Black, Red Glove
    tags: choice, lies, truth
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    Holly Black
    “Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
    ― Holly Black, Red Glove
    tags: change, choices, inevitable, life
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    Chloe Gong
    “The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
    ― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights
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    Chloe Gong
    “To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered.
    ‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
    ― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends
    tags: juliette-cai, love, roma-montagov
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    Holly Black
    “We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
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    Holly Black
    “No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”
    ― Holly Black, Red Glove
    tags: bad, regret, trouble
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    Holly Black
    “She says that what you did was a cry for help."

    "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
    tags: cassel, holly-black, white-cat
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    Holly Black
    “She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.”
    ― Holly Black, Black Heart
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    Holly Black
    “I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
    ― Holly Black, Red Glove
    tags: conflict, happy, life, miserable, sad
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    Holly Black
    “I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.”
    ― Holly Black, White Cat
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    Ocean Vuong
    “They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking
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    Ocean Vuong
    “I miss you more than I remember you.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

    I miss you more than I remember you.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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