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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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Grail
Rethink
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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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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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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
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She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, yes, he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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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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Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
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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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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
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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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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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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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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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I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
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