“Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.”

— Holly Black , book The Darkest Part of the Forest

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American children's fiction writer 1971

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