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Ruthless. That’s my girl.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Ruthless
Girl

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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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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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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse
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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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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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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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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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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 easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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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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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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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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Don't be drinking the Haterade.
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