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Death’s favorites don’t die.

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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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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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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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A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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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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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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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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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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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