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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
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Mutually assured destruction.
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Pet the cat dude, says Sam. She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is. You are a tiny tiny killing machine. Daneca coos. What's she doing? I ask. Purring! says Daneca. She sounds delighted. Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, y
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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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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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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
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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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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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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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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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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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