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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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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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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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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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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.
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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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