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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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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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Farewell, Father, she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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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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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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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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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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