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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Hurts
Hurt
Eyes
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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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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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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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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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It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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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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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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