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Death’s favorites don’t die.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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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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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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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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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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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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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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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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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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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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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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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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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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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Every plan is a house of cards.
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