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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Happy
Sometimes
Made
Something
Way
Think
Thinking
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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
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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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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Don't be drinking the Haterade.
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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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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 can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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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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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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