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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
Hands
Best
Come
Done
Sicken
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Killer
Kind
Killers
Never
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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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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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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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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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Can't get away from your own self.
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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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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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