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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
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New Jersey
United States
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A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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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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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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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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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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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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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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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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