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He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
Criminal
Criminals
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.
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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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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 heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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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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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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Mutually assured destruction.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
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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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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4
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