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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
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Boys
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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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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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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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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