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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
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Circles
Edges
Survive
Friends

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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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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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