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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
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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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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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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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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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 sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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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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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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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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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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