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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Teacher
Learned
Stop
Inspirational
Smiled
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Brave
Smile
Terrible
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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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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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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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