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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
Lying
Lied

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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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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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God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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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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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 need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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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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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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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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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