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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Beautiful
Always
Things
Flaw
Crippled
Flaws
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Beauty

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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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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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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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I don't lie, I lied.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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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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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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