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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
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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 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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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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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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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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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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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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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