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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Crowns
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Trouble
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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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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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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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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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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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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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