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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
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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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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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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
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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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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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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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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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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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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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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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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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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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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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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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