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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Body
Sweaty
Packed
Danced
Tight
Drunk
Bodies
Sound
Everyone

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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 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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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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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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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