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To remind me, pain is the best teacher

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Teacher
Pain
Best
Remind

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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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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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Every plan is a house of cards.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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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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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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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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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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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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