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He looks like the good boy he's never been.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Looks
Good
Never
Like
Boys

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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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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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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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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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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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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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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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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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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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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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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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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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