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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Never
Beats
Boys
Told
Winning
Ends
Back
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Always
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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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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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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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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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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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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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Mutually assured destruction.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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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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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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