Itโs hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you donโt even know about.
Holly BlackOh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?
Holly BlackOnce, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
Holly BlackRefills are free,โ the waitress tells us with a frown, like sheโs hoping weโre not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
Holly BlackI can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.
Holly Black