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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Series
Holy
Second
Makes
Firsts
Book
First
Grail
Rethink

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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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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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 knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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You are more dangerous than daybreak.
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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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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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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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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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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
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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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The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
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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 hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
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I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
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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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