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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
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
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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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Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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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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Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
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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'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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If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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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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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
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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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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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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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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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