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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
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New Jersey
United States
Boys
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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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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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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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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Can't get away from your own self.
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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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