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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Pinch
Calls
Rules
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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I don't lie, I lied.
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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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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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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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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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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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Every plan is a house of cards.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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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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