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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Truth
People
Preferring
Messy
Uncomfortable
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Lies
Lying

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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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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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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 Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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Farewell, Father, she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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