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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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 thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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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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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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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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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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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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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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