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Death’s favorites don’t die.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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Writer
New Jersey
United States
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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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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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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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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Mutually assured destruction.
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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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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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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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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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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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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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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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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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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