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“I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am goinng to be something else.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I keep thinking of the lazy blink of Cardan's lashes over his coal-bright eyes. He looked gleeful, gloating, as though my fist tightening on his shirt was exactly what he would have wished. As though, if I struck him, it would be because he had made me do it.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Brit: "You know what I hate most about it> It's like someone copy-and-pasted the landscape. Just the same sky and the same field over and over again. Like, have some creativity, at least. Break it up with a little flavor every now and then."
Dash: "The billboards add flavor."
Brit: "We clearly have different ideas about flavor, Dashiell.”
― Emma Mills, Famous in a Small Town

“...of the sheets held up around the terrible car crash he saw, so people couldn't see the dead bodies when they pulled them out.
Was dead bodies redundant? When do people ever refer to it as a body unless it's a dead one? Pop songs, maybe? Get your body on the dance floor- that's what I was doing now, but it had to be qualified, the body had to belong to someone. No one sang about "the body"- just "your body" or "my body" and if you were addressing someone about their body on yours, you were both alive, right? Get the body on the dance floor was way more sinister. The implied emptiness. The body was vacant. No one was home.”
― Emma Mills, Famous in a Small Town