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1 " Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. "
― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)
2 " She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying. "
3 " She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes. "
4 " 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 are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again. "
5 " That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them. "
6 " Some promises aren’t worth keeping. "
7 " Love changes us, but we change how we love too. "
8 " I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you. "
9 " Ruthless. That’s my girl. "
10 " We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others. "
11 " Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people. "
12 " You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy. "
13 " Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does. "
14 " Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end. "
15 " It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice. "
16 " She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything. "
17 " I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result. "
18 " Would you?” Mom smiles and touches my hair, pushing it back from my forehead. I let her, but I grit my teeth. Her bare fingers brush my skin. I am thankful when none of my amulets crack. “Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Isn’t that beautiful? My grandfather told me that when I was a little girl, and I never forgot it. Unfortunately, I still like my milk. "
19 " Don’t.” She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. “You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you’re never going to bullshit your way into my heart again. "
20 " He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery. "