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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
Novelist
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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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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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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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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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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
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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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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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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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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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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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