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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Kissed
Pretend
Upset
Selfish
Sorry
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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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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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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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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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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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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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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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