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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
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God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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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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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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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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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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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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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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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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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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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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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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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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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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