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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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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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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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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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Mutually assured destruction.
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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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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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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Farewell, Father, she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
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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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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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I don't lie, I lied.
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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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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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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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