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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
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New Jersey
United States
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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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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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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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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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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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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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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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I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4
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Can't get away from your own self.
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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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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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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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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