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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.

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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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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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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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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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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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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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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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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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