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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Makes
Past
Persons
Artifice
Person
Eats
Different
Construct
Constructs
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Away

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Can't get away from your own self.
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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