“You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt.

"I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage."

Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.”

— Holly Black , book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

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American children's fiction writer 1971

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