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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Life
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Licking
Thorn
Honey

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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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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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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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 starting to sink in, Corny said. I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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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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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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