Quotes from book
White Cat

White Cat
Holly Black

White Cat is the first book in The Curse Workers series about Cassel Sharpe, written by Holly Black. In this alternate world story, workers are rare people with magical abilities that sometimes run in families. Using their abilities requires skin contact and is illegal, which is why most workers are part of crime families. About 10% of the population are workers. There are 7 types of workers. Of those, about 60% are luck workers, while other skills, such as death working, emotion working, memory working, dream working and physical working less common. The rarest type of worker is a transformation worker: they can transform anything into something else.

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“I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.”

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“Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.”

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“Don't be drinking the Haterade.”

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“I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.”

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“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be”

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“I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break."

It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?"

"My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?"

"Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.”

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“Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be?

Seriously, what else could go wrong?”

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“To remind me, pain is the best teacher”

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“It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.”

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“I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.”

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“My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.”

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“I don't lie," I lied.”

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“Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.”

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“She says that what you did was a cry for help."

"It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.”

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“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”

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“And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.”

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“Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.”

“I never lie,” I lie.”

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“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”

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“He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.”

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