Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but … - Holly Black

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Who Honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us. . . and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real. . . and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us. . . and who holds the key that can set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!

Holly Black

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

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If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

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There’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.

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