Holly Black Quote

For a moment, there is silence between us.He takes a step toward me. The other night—I cut him off. I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system.And is it? he asks. Out of your system?I look him in the face and lie. Yes.If he touches me, if he even takes another step toward me, my deceit will be exposed. I don’t think I can keep the longing off my face. Instead, to my relief, he gives a thin-lipped nod and departs.From the next room, I hear the Roach call out to Cardan, to offer to teach him the trick of levitating a playing card. I hear Cardan laugh.It occurs to me that maybe desire isn’t something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time.