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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Twice
Clever
Devil
Pretty
Beauty

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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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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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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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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
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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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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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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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