Once someone’s hurt you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you from wanting them.
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You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
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Birth: | 10th November, 1971 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Writer |
Holly Black was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. She is an American writer and editor best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and a trilogy of Young Adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales trilogy. She graduated with a B.A. in English from The College of New Jersey in 1994. She worked as a production editor on medical journals including The Journal of Pain while studying at Rutgers University. She edited and contributed to the role-playing culture magazine d8 in 1996. She has written several novels include: Tithe, Valiant(won-Andre Norton Award), Ironside, Doll Bones(won-John Newbery Medal), The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Red Glove, and Black Heart.
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