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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
Strange
Beautiful
Everything
Swollen
Possibilities
Possibility
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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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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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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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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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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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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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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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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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