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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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Dying

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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
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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 love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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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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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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