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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

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

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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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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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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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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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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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It's starting to sink in, Corny said. I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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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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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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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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