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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Holly Black

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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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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.
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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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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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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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Every plan is a house of cards.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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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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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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