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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: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Claws
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Everyone
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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