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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.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
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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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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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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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I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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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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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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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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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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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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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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