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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Crutch
Crutches
Curse
Everything

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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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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 don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4
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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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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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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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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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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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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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