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To remind me, pain is the best teacher

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Teacher
Pain
Best
Remind

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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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