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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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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Whenever
Mark
Forget
True
Something
Good
Marks

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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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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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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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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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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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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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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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Farewell, Father, she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
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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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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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