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I like all the things that make you monstrous.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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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 looks like the good boy he's never been.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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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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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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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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