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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: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Lately
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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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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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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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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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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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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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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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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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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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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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