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He looks like the good boy he's never been.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
Boys
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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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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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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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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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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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