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I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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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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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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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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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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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.
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I got bored, he says. Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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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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