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I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
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Monstrous
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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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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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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Can't get away from your own self.
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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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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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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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