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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
Death
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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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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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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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Every plan is a house of cards.
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
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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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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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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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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 weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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