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

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Coffee
Tasks
Accomplish
Sweet
Shall
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Today
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Can't get away from your own self.
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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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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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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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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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