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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Killer
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Killers
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Blood
Hands
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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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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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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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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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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