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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

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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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Anyways
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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It's starting to sink in, Corny said. I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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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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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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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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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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