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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.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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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 envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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 what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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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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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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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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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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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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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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