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I don't lie, I lied.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Lying

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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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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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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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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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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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Can't get away from your own self.
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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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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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