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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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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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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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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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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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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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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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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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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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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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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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Mutually assured destruction.
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