Holly Black Quotes

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.

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.

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.

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.

Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

Ruthless. That’s my girl.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

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.

I need your help," says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

I don't lie," I lied.

Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

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.

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.

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

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

Be careful, " Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

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

In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.

please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.

In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

The only way to end grief was to go through it.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

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?

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

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

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

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. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

If you keep it, " Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.