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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
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Beauty
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Always
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Crippled
Flaws

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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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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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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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 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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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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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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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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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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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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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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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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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