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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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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
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New Jersey
United States
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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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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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Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
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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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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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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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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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You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.
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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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It's starting to sink in, Corny said. I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.
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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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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
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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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There is nothing for her beyond those gates, Gavriel said. Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
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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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