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

Holly Black

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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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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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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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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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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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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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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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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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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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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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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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