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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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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Says
Everyone
Keep
Claws

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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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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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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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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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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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I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.
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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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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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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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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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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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