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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Lately
Hold
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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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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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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 envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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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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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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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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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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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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