Quotes from book
Black Heart

Name: Black Heart
Author: Holly Black

Holly Black

Black Heart is third book in The Curse Workers, a series about Cassel Sharpe written by Holly Black.

“She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.”

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“Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.”

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“She wants me to take out Patton.”

Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?”

“No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.”

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“We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.”

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“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.”

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“Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.”

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“Ruthless. That’s my girl.”

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“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.”

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“You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to.”

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“That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.”

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“Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”

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“He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.”

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“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.”

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“Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.”

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“Some promises aren’t worth keeping.”

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