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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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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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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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