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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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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 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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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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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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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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Can't get away from your own self.
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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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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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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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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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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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