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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

Holly Black

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

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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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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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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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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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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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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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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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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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