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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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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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I don't lie, I lied.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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Don't be drinking the Haterade.
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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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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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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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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