Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

Embrace the darknessbut dare you stop seeking the light

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.

Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.