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Can't get away from your own self.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Self

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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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