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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
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New Jersey
United States
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Girls
Sweeter
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
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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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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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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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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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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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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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