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whatever you love, that is your weakness

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Weakness
Whatever
Love

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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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Can't get away from your own self.
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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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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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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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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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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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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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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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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