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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.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Life
Girls
Sweeter
Moment
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Screaming
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I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend. Headmistress Northcutt says. No, I say. Not at all. Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
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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 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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Mutually assured destruction.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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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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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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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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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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Pet the cat dude, says Sam. She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is. You are a tiny tiny killing machine. Daneca coos. What's she doing? I ask. Purring! says Daneca. She sounds delighted. Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, y
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