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

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

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Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
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Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.
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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
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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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She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
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You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.
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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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After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.
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Ruthless. That’s my girl.
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.
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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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