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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: 53
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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I survive at the edge of friends circles.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident it was a joke.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
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I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse
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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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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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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
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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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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 if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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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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I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.
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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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