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“...warm, buttery sunlight flows into the room like yolk from a cracked egg...”

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The Stolen Heir

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Holly Black

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

“Unglamoured, my skin is the pale blue-grey of hydrangea blooms, smeared with dirt along one cheek and across my nose. My hair is so woven with leaves and twigs and mud that it would be almost impossible to know that underneath it is an even darker blue. I have the same pointy chin I had when I thought I was mortal. A thin face, with large eyes, and an expression of startlement, as though I expect someone else when I look in the mirror. At least my eyes could pass for human. They're green, deep and dark. I smile a little to see the awfulness of my sharp teeth. A mouth full of knives. They make even the Folk flinch.”

Appearance Teeth Holly Black Fae Faerie The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Blue Hair Unkempt

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“I breathe in the fine mist from the water, the scents of loam and clotted river grass.”

Water Grass Holly Black Mist The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Loam River Grass

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“...the dress clings to my chest and waist, skirt flaring over my hips. The tattered edges give it a haunting elegance, as though I am wrapped in the shadows of dusk. I look the picture of mysterious courtier, rather than someone who sleeps in dirt.”

Mysterious Holly Black Elegance The Stolen Heir Shadows Dusk Suren Wren Dress Courtier

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“This is the problem with living by instinct. I don't think.”

Instinct Holly Black The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Not Thinking Dont Think

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“Another girl might have frozen, but I am cold all the way through.”

Cold Suren Wren

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“It seemed, in the beginning, that fighting back would only bring me further pain. That’s the lesson they wanted me taught, but soon I realized I would be hurt anyway. Better to hurt someone else when I had a chance. Better to make them hesitate, to know it would cost them something.”

Suren Wren Fighting Back Revindra

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“And for a moment, I am viciously glad. 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.”

Suren

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“Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.”

Suren

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“As a child, Wren read lots of fairy tales. That's why, when the monsters came, she knew it was because she had been wicked.”

Monsters Wicked Holly Black Fairy Tales The Stolen Heir Suren Wren

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“He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.”

Religion

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