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It is my belief that books are living things.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Books
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Living
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Things

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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 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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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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It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.
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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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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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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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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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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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She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.
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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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Don't be drinking the Haterade.
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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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Death’s favorites don’t die.
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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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A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
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Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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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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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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Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.
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