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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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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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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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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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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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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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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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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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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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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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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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