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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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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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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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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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It's starting to sink in, Corny said. I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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