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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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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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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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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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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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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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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 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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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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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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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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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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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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