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Don't be drinking the Haterade.

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

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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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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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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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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'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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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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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 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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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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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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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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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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