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“I couldn't be the child that they had loved. Not after everything that happened to me. Not after learning that I am made of sticks and snow.”

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Book:The Stolen Heir

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The Stolen Heir

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Holly Black, born on November 10, 1971, is a renowned fantasy fiction writer from the United States. Her works are known for their unique imagination and profound emotional depth, which have won her a large fan base. more

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“Anticipation whispers through the trees, like an indrawn breath. Urging me on.”

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“No one in chains could ever truly love you.' He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?' The truth of that hits like a blow.”

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“It would be better to disconnect from everything, to float free from my body, to be nothing in an endless night of nothing.”

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“Mortals are liars,' the Unseelie queen says with a snort. 'That doesn't mean everything they say is a lie,' I return.”

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“It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.”

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“He throws his words around like knives. Recklessly. Heedlessly. Whatever the opposite of being honey-tongued might be.”

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“Fix your hair,' she says, then shrugs again. 'Or make it wilder. You look lovely either way.”

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“In this hair, and with this dress, I look pretty. The kind of pretty that allows monsters to deceive people into forests, into dances where they will find their doom.”

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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.”

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