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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Beauty
Twice
Clever
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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'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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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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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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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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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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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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