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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
United States
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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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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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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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Every plan is a house of cards.
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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'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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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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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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.
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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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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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It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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