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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.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Really
Love
Hurts
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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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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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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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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