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I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

Holly Black

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Hate
Things
Admitting
Crush
Wanting
Especially

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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
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Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
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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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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
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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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I don't lie, I lied.
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If you keep it, Daneca says, he'll have his claws in you. Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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To remind me, pain is the best teacher
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Flattery will get you everywhere, Sam says, Except, apparently, off a roof.
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I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
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I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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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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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
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My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
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Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.
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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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