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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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Holly Black
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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Book
First
Grail
Rethink
Series
Holy
Second
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
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I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.
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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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You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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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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Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.
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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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