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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: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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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.
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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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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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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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