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

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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 girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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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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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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It is my belief that books are living things.
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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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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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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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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
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Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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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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I'm not very good at explaining things, she said. But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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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