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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Beautiful
Everything
Swollen
Possibilities
Possibility
Strange

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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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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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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4
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