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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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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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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
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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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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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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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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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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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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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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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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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Don't be drinking the Haterade.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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