Iโve stripped my life down,โ he told me. โI donโt need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.โ He shot himself in the head with his fingers. โPeople donโt understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time theyโll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, thereโs nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.
Holly BlackYou're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.
Holly BlackRefills are free,โ the waitress tells us with a frown, like sheโs hoping weโre not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
Holly Black