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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
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New Jersey
United States
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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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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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