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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Weirdness
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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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 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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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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There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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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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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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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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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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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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