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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
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Criminal
Criminals
Honest
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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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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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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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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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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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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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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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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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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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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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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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