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Mutually assured destruction.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Assured
Destruction
Mutually

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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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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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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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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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