Valiant (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Lolli: One of the homeless teens Val meets.
• Val: The protagonist who runs away from home to New York City and falls in with some homeless teens.
• Ravus: A troll whom Luis and Dave do errands for.
• Jen: A girl in Val's school who insults Ruth.
• Tom: Val's ex-boyfriend.
• Mabry: A goat-hooved fae living in New York City.
• Ruth: Val's best friend.
• Luis: Dave's older brother. He has the Sight which enables him to see faeries.
• Dave: Luis's younger brother.

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• “"I don't make things magical," he said. "I could, perhaps, but not in any quantity or potency. It would be beyond me, beyond almost anyone save a high Lord or Lady Faerie. These things..." His hand swept over the worktable, over the hardened nuggets of chewed gum, the various wrappers and cans, the lipstick-stained butts of cigarettes. "Are already magical. People have made them so." He picked up a silvery gum wrapper." A mirror that never cracks." He picked up a tissue with a blotted lipstick mouth on it. "A kiss that never ends." A cigarette. "The Breath of a man."”

  Narrator and Ravus

• “You carried my heart in your hands tonight... But I have felt as if you carried it long before that”

  Ravus

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• All human beings should try and learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. —JAMES THURBER

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• “One fine day in the middle of the night,” she intoned. “Two dead boys got up to fight.” “Stop it,” Val said, pulling away. “Back to back they faced each other, pulled out their swords and shot one another. The deaf cop on the beat heard the noise and came and shot the two dead boys.”

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• They love not poison that do poison need. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, RICHARD II

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• Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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• To these I turn, in these I trust— Brother Lead and Sister Steel.

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• Immediately after the monsters, die the heroes.

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• When a man tells you he’s going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they’re always right.

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• Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. —PHILIP K. DICK

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• Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. —WILLIAM BLAKE, “THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL”

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• Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years. —G. K. CHESTERTON, ORTHODOXY

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York
• Central Park

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Glossary edit see section history

• detritus: (n.) waste or debris of any kind
• efficacious: (adj.) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective
• restive: (adj.) unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control; restless
• surcease: (v.) to cease from some action; desist
• capricious: (adj.) subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Tithe, and followed by Ironside.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Holly Black (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Andre Norton Award (Finalist, 2005: Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Finalist, 2006: Children's Literature, Finalist)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PZ7.B52878 Val 2005
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Some mature content: swear words, drug abuse, homelessness. Some sexual content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction

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