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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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New Jersey
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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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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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It is my belief that books are living things.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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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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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 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 hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.
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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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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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I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact. I'm not scared of being spoiled, Val said.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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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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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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