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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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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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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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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 hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.
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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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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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It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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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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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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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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You set me up, I say. One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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