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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Holly Black

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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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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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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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I don't lie, I lied.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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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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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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She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.
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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 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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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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 stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there. We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't. what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it? Pretty much.
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