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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Promises
Keeping
Aren
Promise
Worth

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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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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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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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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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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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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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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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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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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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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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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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