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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
Good
Never
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Boys
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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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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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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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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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
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