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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
Dying
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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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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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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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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Mutually assured destruction.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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