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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Keeping
Aren
Promise
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Promises

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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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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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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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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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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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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I don't lie, I lied.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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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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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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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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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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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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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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