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I survive at the edge of friends circles.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Edge
Circles
Edges
Survive
Friends

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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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