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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: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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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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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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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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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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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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It's starting to sink in, Corny said. I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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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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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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