Mercedes M. Yardley Quotes

#1. Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

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#2. It's time. It's time. It sounded like her father's voice in the wind. Run, Star Girl.

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#3. The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.

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#4. Lu felt his heart do a strange thing. It hurt. It opened. It beat.

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#5. Maybe princes aren't real," Sada said. Her eyes were crafty and sad at the same time. "But monsters are." She opened her mouth wide and showed Azhar the wildflowers sitting on her tongue.

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#6. Careful, Star Girl. Your time has nearly come.

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#7. Weakness is stereotypically expected in women but also despised.

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#8. For the first time I saw Death as somebody to fear instead of the gangly sack of bones who ate all of my Cheetos and saved over my games on the Playstation.

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#9. The demonic love the taste of little girls.

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#10. Do you mind," he asked politely, "if I slide my blade under your skin, just a little?

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