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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Pretty
Beauty
Twice
Clever
Devil

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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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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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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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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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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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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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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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I don't lie, I lied.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it 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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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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