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Mutually assured destruction.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Mutually
Assured
Destruction

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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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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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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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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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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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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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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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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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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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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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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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I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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