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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
Lately
Hold
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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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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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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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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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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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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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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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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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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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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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