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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Swollen
Possibilities
Possibility
Strange
Beautiful
Everything

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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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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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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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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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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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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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