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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
Rethink
Series
Holy
Second
Makes
Firsts
Book
First
Grail

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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
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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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whatever you love, that is your weakness
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I don't lie, I lied.
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Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
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Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.
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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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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 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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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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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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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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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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