Holly Black Quotes

A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.

Every plan is a house of cards.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.

I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

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

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

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.

His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Death’s favorites don’t die.

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

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.

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.

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.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

There are dog people and cat people.

Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.

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.

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

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.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4

I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court." "Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

It is my belief that books are living things.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.