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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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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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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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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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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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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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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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