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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.

Holly Black

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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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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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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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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 survive at the edge of friends circles.
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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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Farewell, Father, she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
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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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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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