A.Z. Black Quotes

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

You can't be wishy-washy. That's the most boring thing in the world, to be a middle-of-the-road wet noodle. That's my greatest fear, to be like, "Oh, whatever." That's just not who I am.

I see a lot of that on Tumblr - people asking advice from people they don't know. That's so odd to me. Asking an anonymous person for advice seems very odd.

I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.

If you can educate girls, you can change the world.

I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

She sits up. I can’t read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. “I didn’t think you were going to be here.” “I live here.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.

As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

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.

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.