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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Feelings
Sat
Torturing
Pops
Tossing
Grass
Vaguely
Guilty
Lawn
Air
Damp
Ought
Lawns
Clumps
Tree
Dew
Scold
Feeling
Ripped
Gnome

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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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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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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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