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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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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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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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Can't get away from your own self.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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It's starting to sink in, Corny said. I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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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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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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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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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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