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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Powerful
Eye
Faery
Black
Blinking
Littles
Wizard
Anything
Wizards
Little
Corny
Nothing
Rapidly
Trying
Eyes

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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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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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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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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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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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