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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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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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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
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No trouble ever got fixed late at night, he said. Midnight is for regrets.
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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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It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.
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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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Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for 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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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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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
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I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
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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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Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
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Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
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Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
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You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
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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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Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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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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