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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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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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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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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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Can't get away from your own self.
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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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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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Don't be drinking the Haterade.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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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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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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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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