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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Flaws
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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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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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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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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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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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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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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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