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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
Circles
Edges
Survive
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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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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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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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