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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

Holly Black

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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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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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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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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 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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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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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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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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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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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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