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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
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New Jersey
United States
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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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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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Can't get away from your own self.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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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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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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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 didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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