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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
Girl
Screaming
Moments
Scream
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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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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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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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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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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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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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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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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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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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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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