Top 100 Charlie N. Holmberg Quotes
#1. The big spells," Mg. Thane answered, his expression plain but his bright eyes smiling. Did he know how much those eyes gave away?
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#2. Don't you see, Delilah?" she asked. "I need to wrap up this mess before anyone else gets hurt. I can do it. I know I can. But we have to leave now, while there's still time.
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#3. Ceony shut the book and glanced to her new teacher. "It's . . . amazing, but I admit it's also superficial. Aesthetic."
"But entertaining," he combated. "Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it's something everyone wants.
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#4. His laughter made me laugh, his thoughts made me think, and his silence made me listen to each intake of his breath.
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#5. Perhaps," Mg. Katter cut in, "she's finally gotten smart. In and out, job done."
Mg. Hughes said, "No. Not her." He paused. "She knows Emery is critical to the syndicate, they all do. He's personally invested in it. That, and she's always kept a . . . keen . . . interest in him.
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#6. She tied a robe around herself even though she had no intention of leaving her room - one could never be too careful about avoiding Peeping Toms in a new place.
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#7. tall buildings and clustered streets of the city had her trapped like a mouse in a maze, without even the possible reward of cheese.
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#8. Then forgive yourself!" she shouted, pushing herself back up. She pressed her palm against the wall for support. "Everyone has a dark side! But it's their choice whether or not they cultivate it. Don't you understand? Lira's exploited hers, but not you. Not you, Emery Thane.
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#9. in the crook of her elbow as she went. Above her, over an apartment building and a tavern, she saw the expanse of a large square building with a flat roof and a single cylinder chimney. It was a tan-brick warehouse with dark broken windows. An abandoned bird's
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#10. She didn't need a paper dog reminding her what a fool brain she had inside her skull.
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#11. Once a secret spread to too many minds and mouths, anyone could learn it - including
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#12. All she could do now was run . . . and figure out how to defeat an Excisioner who couldn't be killed.
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#13. Her head full of clouds, but not in the dreamy sense. Just the empty one.
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#14. She imagined Mg. Thane's hands over her own, guiding her Folds, and squinted in the candlelight to ensure all her edges aligned and all her creases were straight.
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#16. On count two, she shouted, "I deserve a stipend after this!" The words echoed offbeat with the pulsing walls.
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#18. Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad poetry spoken underwater.
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#19. He wore normal clothes, but his dark skin contrasted with the rest of the bystanders.
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#20. Bennet was a wonderful friend and, admittedly, a wonderful specimen of a man, but she worried over his friendliness.
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#21. I've eaten meat only once, and when I learned of it, I emptied my stomach into the latrine. Behind
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#22. A young woman in distress, and they hadn't even slowed? Curse the French!
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#23. As far as magic went, she knew it was paper or nothing, and she'd rather be a Folder than a failure. She
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#25. Focus on your target," Emery's voice spoke in her memory as he had during his quick lesson in the new spell. "Feel it in your mind like your story illusions. If you do, the stars will hit their mark." Reaching
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#26. I always saw novels as an outlet for which the mind can escape this world, not be tethered to it." "I
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#27. Setting her jaw, Ceony stepped away from the heart. She would allow no spell of Lira's to miss her and strike it. She would keep Emery's heart safe, especially from the woman who had treated it so very poorly.
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#28. Perhaps she really wasn't as astute as she should be. She wondered if there was a spell for that.
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#29. Everyone has a dark side! But it's their choice whether or not they cultivate it.
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#30. Would you humor me for a moment?"
"I believe I've been humoring you since you walked through my front door," he replied.
She smiled. "Just for a moment.
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#32. Ceony nodded, feeling an unseen band of rubber stretch between her and Emery as he turned to go.
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#34. she exclaimed with all the anxiety of a worried mother, the sternness of an academy principal, and the relief of a farmer feeling spring's first rain on his skin. Her
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#35. And there's nothing wrong with freckles, Ceony. Heaven forbid you look like everyone else in this place.
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#37. Staggering to her feet, Ceony stomped her shoe down on the hand twice before it stopped moving. She stomped it twice more for insurance.
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#38. He opened his mouth to respond, closed it. Pushed fingers back through his short hair, then actually laughed. "I suppose we're both horrible people.
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#39. But you can't die!" Ceony cried, and Mg. Thane didn't so much as flinch at the volume, or at the tear that struck him on the bridge of his nose. He didn't seem aware of her at all. "You have too much to teach me! And you're too nice to die!
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#40. Emery's eyes sparkled with amusement. Had she done something funny?
"I've determined that I will teach you to cheat at cards for the day's first lesson," Emery announced.
Ceony dropped her scissors. "I knew you were cheating!
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#42. She stared up into the beauty of his green eyes, and for a moment she saw everything there, all the pieces of his heart that she remembered so vividly, all the smiles and unspoken words she had earned since meeting him three months earlier.
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#43. A few dead leaves fell down on top of her, carrying the scent of dew and the sound of birdsong. Taking
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#45. Anger. Infidelity. Death. Dark times - that's what these memories were. Ceony had passed through Emery's goodness and his hopes; it made sense to see his darkness, too. To see his hurts and his vices. To see the shadows cast behind those bright eyes.
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#46. You are the kind of women who makes me believe in God...I don't know how else it could be possible to find you.
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#48. You didn't 'instruct' me to stay," Ceony countered. "Just to leave the dining room. Which I did."
Mg. Aviosky rubbed the bridge of her nose under her glasses. "This feels very much like detention again, Ceony.
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#49. It's like you have a checklist for dangerous criminals tucked into your pocket, and you won't be satisfied until you've had a personal encounter with each.
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#50. She searched for a possible escape route should she need one and spied the paper skeleton immediately behind her and shrieked for the second time. Who needed ghosts to haunt a house when one could form his own demons out of paper?
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#51. Fennel licked her sleeves with his paper tongue and wagged his tail so fiercely she feared it would fly off his rump and land in the icebox.
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#53. Don't be ridiculous," Mg. Aviosky assured her as Magicians Katter and Hughes studied Mg. Thane lying on the floor by the light of four candles. "The only one who can manipulate Emery Thane's future is Emery Thane himself.
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#55. Matrona imagined her flush was made of thousands of biting ants, and the soft breeze blew them off her skin as she walked, carrying them back into the wood.
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#56. I suppose after you see so much, the extraordinary starts to become more ordinary.
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#58. She thought her ears would light with fire, her cheeks burn to ash, but the moment passed, as even the worst moments do.
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#59. I'd like to see twenty-one links completed when I return. Threats on your well-being are poor excuses for missing homework!
He drew a happy face after that - two dots and a curving line - and signed his name.
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#60. Put it down," Ceony said. Clearing her throat, she repeated, "Put it down or I'll shoot you, I swear I will. I'm taking this heart back with me."
Lira's face turned to a scowl so gradually Ceony hardly saw it change. "I'm not letting some ginger tart take what's rightfully mine.
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#61. Matrona's heart retreated until it hit her spine, and she quivered with its every beat.
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#64. She had fit him into a one-dimensional mold during their first meeting, and had done so with ease. Langston, too. How many others had she judged and set aside like that, thinking them no more than a one-sided piece of paper?
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#65. She turned her head to showcase the barrette. "What do you think?"
Emery's expression softened. "I think it's lovely. I did a good job on that."
Ceony rolled her eyes. "How modest. But thank you, for this. And the flowers.
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#66. I think I understand what you mean, about there being good in all faiths. In all gods, in all beliefs. When I think about it . . . I guess I've just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith
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#68. Six days. The man had been gone six days, and that was all he had to say about it?
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#71. She had the feeling of reading a story with all its even pages torn out.
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#72. but with their enemies either dead, jailed, or in a perpetual state of being frozen, danger had decided to leave them alone.
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#74. Then she shouted, "If you're going to get yourself killed, you could at least kiss me first!
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#75. crust. It's strange, this story of mine. A tale that starts somewhere in chapter twenty and ends who knows where.
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#76. She swallowed hard, feeling like a stroke of paint on a canvas far too large for her to comprehend.
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#78. Excellent!" Mg. Thane clapped her on the shoulder and strode out of the library. "I'll be on my way. Try not to burn anything down.
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#79. stepped away from it. What sort of morbid man constructed a butler out of paper? Was there no one else to answer the door? "Do
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#80. She found Emery and Mg. Aviosky talking to two disgruntled police officers. Or rather, Mg. Aviosky stood by silently while Emery yelled at them.
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#82. Ceony gaped in surprise. There, wagging its little paper tail, stood a paper dog.
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#83. Make it whole, and it will rise whole. That's your first lesson of the day.
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#85. All I knew to look for was a redheaded girl with strange magic. And you turned out to be Emery Thane's apprentice, of all people. How is the bugger? Still kicking, I hear.
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#86. It was those dolls...so strange and disarming. Matrona had never seen their like before.
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#87. The clouds looked like ethereal creatures, sky-fish swimming across the blue expanse, following the sun to the other side of the world.
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#88. You are the kind of woman who makes me believe in God, Ceony," he murmured. "I don't know how else it could be possible to find you. For heaven's sake, you even delivered yourself to my front door." She
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#89. I feel capable of achieving anything, for nothing worldly can possibly hold me back from my ambitions now.
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#90. Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don't meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn't mean you don't believe in something.
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#91. Thane leaned his chin into his palm, much the same way he had at his titling ceremony when he became a magician, looking every bit the part of bored.
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#92. She didn't know where the factory was, but she didn't need to - the city unfolded itself before her just as every other vision had, directing her toward Emery Thane, for she ran through the secrets of his heart.
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#93. Never trust what your eyes see at a magician's home, Miss Twill. You know that.
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#95. She brought the box back into the dining room and showed it to Emery. "Which ones go here?"
Amusement touched his eyes - that seemed to be their preferred emotion - and he took the pen and paper from her, finishing the last three symbols himself as he chewed.
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#97. Do you have a large family? You seem like someone who suffered through a great deal of sisters."
"I've suffered through a great many people, but none of them sisters. I'm an only child."
That explains a few things, Ceony thought.
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#99. It stretched forever until it met a gray-blue sky lined with pale cerise, a sky perpetually caught in the moments before sunrise.
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#100. The heart had the dark to balance out the light, the uncertainty to balance dreams.
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