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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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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 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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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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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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I don't lie, I lied.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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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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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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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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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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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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