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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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 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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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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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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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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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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