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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Burnt
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God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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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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in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
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It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster? Everything.
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.
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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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And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
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