He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
Holly BlackLie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
Holly BlackThere is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.
Holly BlackTag: love
Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a magician's apprentice or a pig keeper who might or might not be a king's son or a princess with a prophecy hanging over my head. But I could, maybe, somehow, be part of a community of artists who loved magic.
Holly BlackTag: speculative-fiction 1980s
Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
Holly BlackTag: young-adult-fiction distopian cassel-sharpe
You’re a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.
Holly BlackA man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
Holly BlackThere’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. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
Holly BlackYou keep talking, but you’re not making any sense. Of course you upset someone in the government. You pretended to be the governor of New Jersey and confessed to a bunch of crimes.”
I can’t help the small smile that’s playing at the corners of my mouth. “So,” I say, “how did it go over?
Mom" I say "Oh honey" she says "The doctor wants to see you to make sure you don't have the same thing that killed your brother. "
She turns to Ms.Logan who looks scandalized by the whole encounter. "These things can run in famalies" she confides.
"Your afraid I'm going to come down with a bad case of getting two in the chest?" I say "cause you might be right about that running in families.
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