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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
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Accomplish
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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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