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Red Glove

Name: Red Glove
Author: Holly Black

Holly Black

Red Glove is the 2011 second book in The Curse Workers, a series about Cassel Sharpe written by Holly Black.

“Mutually assured destruction.”

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“Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.”

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“You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.”

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“I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”

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“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”

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“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

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“You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt.

"I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage."

Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.”

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“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”

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“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”

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“The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.”

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“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.”

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“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”

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“Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”

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“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”

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“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”

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“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”

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“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

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“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”

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“You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.”

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“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”

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