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Every plan is a house of cards.

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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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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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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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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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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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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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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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Can't get away from your own self.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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Mutually assured destruction.
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It is my belief that books are living things.
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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
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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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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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