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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.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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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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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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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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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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Farewell, Father, she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
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