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

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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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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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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 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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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Can't get away from your own self.
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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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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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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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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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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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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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