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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.

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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Games
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Gullible
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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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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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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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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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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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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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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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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 don't lie, I lied.
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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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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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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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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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