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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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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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I don't lie, I lied.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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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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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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 the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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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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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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