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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
Nameless
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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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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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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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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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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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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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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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 need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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