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We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
No.I couldn't have.Not with an Ewok-cuddling,Force-feel-ing,Padawan-braid-wearing, lightsaber-rammed-up-his -ass Jedi. -- Holly Black
You keep talking, but you're not making any sense. Of course you upset someone in the government. You pretended to be the governor of New Jersey and confessed to a bunch of crimes."
I can't help the small smile that's playing at the corners of my mouth. "So," I say, "how did it go over? -- Holly Black
Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you."
"What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy."
"I'm crazy," he reminded her. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
What is that quote?" Hazel said, walking to him, too glad he'd come to object to the danger he'd put himself in. "The Lord protects fools, drunks, and dumbass ax wielders? -- Holly Black
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn. -- Holly Black
With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world. -- Holly Black
They have a friend - " Tana began.
"I have a friend, too," said Gavriel. "And I mean to kill him. -- Holly Black
whatever you love, that is your weakness -- Holly Black
He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls. -- Holly Black
He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood. -- Holly Black
There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it? -- Holly Black
You can't!" Aaron said. "Didn't you hear anything I just told you? You could die!
" Well, don't kill me," Call said. "How about our goal is not to die. Both of us. Not dying. Together. -- Holly Black
One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys. -- Holly Black
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute. -- Holly Black
The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke. -- Holly Black
They wore their strange beauty like war paint. -- Holly Black
Mom and Zacharov?"
I shrug. "I know. It's weird, right? I'm trying really hard not to think about it."
"You mean about the part that if Zacharov and Mom got married, that would make you and Lila brother and sister? -- Holly Black
The flavor of that blood stayed with him through the long years of his service ( ... ) by then he could no longer remember whose blood it was, only that he had grown used to the taste. -- Holly Black
Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea. -- Holly Black
Val and Ruth had been friends forever, for so long that Val was used to being the overshadowed one, the "normal" one, the one who set up the witty one-liners, not the one who delivered them. She liked that role; it made her feel safe. Robin to Ruth's Batman. Chewbaca to her Han Solo. -- Holly Black
You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies. -- Holly Black
It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me. -- Holly Black
Seems like Death came back for me."
He grinned, a subtly odd grin that somehow made her smile back. "You drove him off again. Sleep, Tana. I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. We have been adversaries for so long that we are closer than friends. -- Holly Black
I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things. -- Holly Black
As he bent closer, he realized they were words
words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach.
KILL THE CHILD -- Holly Black
But if you don't want to go with them, you're going to have to lash yourself to the bed like sailors who lashed themselves to masts to avoid jumping into the sea with Sirens. -- Holly Black
They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded. -- Holly Black
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended. -- Holly Black
Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."
I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk.
"They're for you."
"You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous? -- Holly Black
Can you really cook meth in a hotel coffeepot?" - Cassel
"Sure," Jones says, looking into his cup thoughtfully.
Guess Mom was right about one thing. -- Holly Black
People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void. -- Holly Black
They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows. -- Holly Black
She wants me to take out Patton."
Barron's brows draw together. "Take out? As in transform him?"
"No," I say. "As in take out to dinner. She thinks we'd make a good couple. -- Holly Black
Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers. -- Holly Black
More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face. -- Holly Black
She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her. -- Holly Black
The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all.
I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces. -- Holly Black
I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's. -- Holly Black
Then her mouth is sliding against mine. Her lips open, soft and yielding. Our teeth click together, and she tastes like every dark thought I've ever had. -- Holly Black
Call wasn't sure what it meant that he'd gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn't manage to impress him. -- Holly Black
In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death. -- Holly Black
Me do not live as you do. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent to far. -- Holly Black
Cruddy Mouthbreather -- Holly Black
She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me. -- Holly Black
I'm Lila, and yes, he's crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he's obviously gotten crazier over
time. -- Holly Black
Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing. -- Holly Black
She was unprepared for how much the way into Coldtown looked like a shoddily run DMV. -- Holly Black
Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem to barrel through an interview like this, so I imagine I have a long way to go. -- Holly Black
I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. -- Holly Black
She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you."
He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer. -- Holly Black
Air all around him, there was air in the water, all elements were one, fire and earth, air and water. All are but one thing, not four, not two, and not three, but one. He -- Holly Black
There is something of yours that i would like to return to you ... He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own. -- Holly Black
Aidan pulled against his bonds. "They keep talking to him in a whole bunch of languages. A lot of French. Something about the Thorn of Istra. I think he's in trouble."
"Are you?" Tana asked.
"Not exactly," said Gavriel. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
I love you, you see ... and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted ... Or not obviously -- Holly Black
If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val. -- Holly Black
They say that nameless things change constantly - that names fix them in place like pins. -- Holly Black
I like all the things that make you monstrous. -- Holly Black
I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone. -- Holly Black
I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it -- Holly Black
After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing. -- Holly Black
Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It'll cost you everything. -- Holly Black
You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right. -- Holly Black
Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother's house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort. -- Holly Black
Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt. -- Holly Black
Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid. -- Holly Black
Barron's stuck teaching me. It's supposed to be just for a few months, until I graduate from Wallingford. Let's see if we can stand each other that long. -- Holly Black
And Barron is probably right - we should give this up. Not for the reason he's saying but for the one that's implied. The one about it not being okay to lurk around outside buildings, spying on girls you like. -- Holly Black
She's an old lady," Barron says. "And she's been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Every plan is a house of cards. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life. -- Holly Black
Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end. -- Holly Black
Boys never believe I can beat them... But I always win in the end. - Lila -- Holly Black
Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long. -- Holly Black
He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit of everything. -- Holly Black
My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin. -- Holly Black
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. -- Holly Black
Now that I've started touching her, I can't seem to stop. Like somehow the language of my hands will tell her all the things I don't know how to say out loud. -- Holly Black
She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right. -- Holly Black
It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house.
If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me.
He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else. -- Holly Black
Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth. -- Holly Black
I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion. -- Holly Black
Cassel, she said, you want to know how to be the most charming guy anyone's ever met? Remind them of their favorite person. Everyone's favorite person is their own damn self. -- Holly Black
What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school? I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am. -- Holly Black
So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone ... there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them. -- Holly Black
There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe -- Holly Black
I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated. -- Holly Black
Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out. -- Holly Black
Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality. -- Holly Black
She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes. -- Holly Black
The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield. -- Holly Black
I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says.
"No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine. -- Holly Black
To remind me, pain is the best teacher -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel. -- Holly Black
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery. -- Holly Black
I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
After spending months living in the orderly dorms of Wallingford, where they give you a Saturday detention if your room doesn't pass semi-regular inspections, I feel the old conflicting sense of familiarity and disgust. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash.
Corny had not stopped laughing. -- Holly Black
That was how she felt, right then. As if there was too much of her, as if her skin was tight with muchness. She felt ripe to bursting. -- Holly Black
Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. -- Holly Black
If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up. -- Holly Black
I grab a chair. "I don't mean to pry," I say, "but we're in a hospital. You sure you're fine?"
She sighs heavily. "No getting anything past you, huh?"
"I also often notice when water is wet. I have a keen detective's mind like that. -- Holly Black
When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere. -- Holly Black
I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language. -- Holly Black
Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses - one black, one white, and the third red. -- Holly Black
Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms. -- Holly Black
Every night, in every Coldtown, people die. People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death. -- Holly Black
Don't." She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. "You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you're never going to bullshit your way into my heart again. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
She goes through this world as of nothing touches her, as if no one can reach her, as though she's focused on something bigger and better and more important that she's not going to tell you a single thing about. It charms them. -- Holly Black
Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. -- Holly Black
Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn -- Holly Black
All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't. -- Holly Black
Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry, -- Holly Black
The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway. -- Holly Black
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way. -- Holly Black
All elements have a counterweight. Fire is the counterweight of water. Air is the counterweight of earth. The counterweight of chaos is the soul. -- Holly Black
She fell asleep like a flame being extinguished. -- Holly Black
To Ben, love was the flame in which he wanted to be reborn. He wanted to be remade by it. -- Holly Black
If you were willing to trade him away, even for an hour, then you don't deserve him. I'll keep them both to raise as my own and let that be our judgment on you for breaking and oath with us. (pg. 9) -- Holly Black
I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks. -- Holly Black
Maybe like the bat in the birdcage, Gavriel had been waiting for dark, waiting to get out of the chains, drink Aidan's blood, and escape. But when she showed up, he figured he could use them for a ride through daylight, so long as he seemed harmless enough to need saving. A chill crept up her spine. -- Holly Black
This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities. -- Holly Black
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from a ride
With the Lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger. -- Holly Black
Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which. -- Holly Black
But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.
Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot. -- Holly Black
I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times. -- Holly Black
Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it. -- Holly Black
You both ... you both saved me?"
"Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour. -- Holly Black
There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to write a vampire book, or so huge that you would be crazy to write a vampire book. I'm not sure there's ever going to be a time. We went from Anne Rice to Buffy to 'Twilight.' -- Holly Black
It's just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he'd forget my water or food and I'd cry and cry and cry." She stops talking and looks out the window. "I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up. -- Holly Black
There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party. -- Holly Black
His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken. -- Holly Black
She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying. -- Holly Black
What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them. -- Holly Black
If one of the people who'd gone Cold drank human blood, the infection mutated. It killed the host and then raised them back up again, Colder than before. Cold through and through, forever and ever. -- Holly Black
That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them. -- Holly Black
If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."
Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone. -- Holly Black
I guess it's true; no one will ever love you like your family. -- Holly Black
Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another.
You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you. -- Holly Black
Maybe if we wrap some of those around you, then even if the blanket slips, you won't burn. We can duct-tape it together. As long as you don't mind looking ridiculous."
The vampire smiled a closemouthed smile. -- Holly Black
You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one. -- Holly Black
Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. -- Holly Black
On the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die. -- Holly Black
A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry. -- Holly Black
Gazing at her for a long moment with something like horror, as though he was seeing her for the first time, he spoke. "You are more dangerous than daybreak."
Before Tana could reply, he stepped into the lengthening shadows of morning and was gone. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Mutually assured destruction. -- Holly Black
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location. -- Holly Black
You have carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you have carried it long before that. -- Holly Black
Every hero is the villain of his own story. -- Holly Black
Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'
He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'
It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. -- Holly Black
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Mad as a dog. Mad as a god. -- Holly Black
I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have. -- Holly Black
I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good. -- Holly Black
When I was a kid and brought friends over , I was defiantly proud of the chaos. I liked that I knew how to jump over the piles and the shattered glass while they stumbled. Now it just seems like an ocean of crazy that I have no way to explain. -- Holly Black
Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown -- Holly Black
Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in. -- Holly Black
It was a kitchen to be useful in. -- Holly Black
An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time. -- Holly Black
Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye -- Holly Black
She came out of sleep like a thunderclap - waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them. -- Holly Black
The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka.
"To Zacharov!" one toasts.
"To open hearts and open bars!" calls another.
"And open legs," says Anton. -- Holly Black
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series. -- Holly Black
I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did. -- Holly Black
If there is nothing but this;" Roiben said. "If we are to be shadows, changeless and forgotten, we will have to dine on these memories for the rest of our days. Don't you want a few more moments to chew over? -- Holly Black
Like all schools, we are always interested in learning, in research, in pushing the limits of knowledge. But we must balance that with our duty to protect the world, even from ourselves. -- Holly Black
Apparently you can do lots of things very skilfully while asleep, Mr. Sharpe, but attending my class does not seem to be one of them. -- Holly Black
It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Some promises aren't worth keeping. -- Holly Black
The more you love her, the crazier you get. My love was great. My crimes were greater. -- Holly Black
Coldtown was dangerous. Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them. -- Holly Black
He thinks of Elienad, lying beneath tables, listening to the inflections of lies. Watching the hesitations, the gestures, the tensed muscles. Learning a language the king was unaware he even spoke. -- Holly Black
She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, so covered in blood that she hadn't remembered his features, hadn't remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughing, endlessly laughing.
Mad as a dog. Mad as a god. -- Holly Black
You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people. -- Holly Black
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. -- Holly Black
Don't be drinking the Haterade. -- Holly Black
It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.
Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker. -- Holly Black
For I know that Death is a guest divine, Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine. - William Winter -- Holly Black
The book turned out to be one she'd read before, where zombies chased around a brother-and-sister reporting team. -- Holly Black
Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134) -- Holly Black
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse -- Holly Black
I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact."
"I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said. -- Holly Black
There's people who do things and people who never do - who say they will someday, but they just don't. I want to go on a quest. I've always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I'm not backing down from it. I'm not going home until it's complete. -- Holly Black
You don't know what you are. -- Holly Black
If you stop," she says, "I will also kill you. -- Holly Black
Everyone danced
sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound. -- Holly Black
That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up. -- Holly Black
She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced. -- Holly Black
Jack looked surprised when she stumbled upon him, which was odd, because he was almost never caught off guard. As his mother once said about him, Jack could hear the thunder before the lightning bothered to strike. -- Holly Black
A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings. -- Holly Black
Lucy- "Wow, no one ever fights over me."
Justin- "My multiple personalities fight over you constantly. There is a war going on inside me."
Rue- "This is for the war going on outside. -- Holly Black
We know about your brother. He called and told us himself. Said to imagine Faerieland like an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. I told him it was more like an exclusive boarding school in hell. -- Holly Black
So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job. -- Holly Black
By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms. -- Holly Black
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break."
It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?"
"My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?"
"Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent. -- Holly Black
Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
... "Shut up or I might," she told him. -- Holly Black
He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It's easy to think you're succeeding when you're failing spectacularly. -- Holly Black
Sam: You know what I wish?
Cassel: What?
Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me. -- Holly Black
He would make out with girls in front of her. He would make out with boys in front of her. He would wink at her from across rooms, daring her to criticize him. -- Holly Black
In her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears. -- Holly Black
And you want more holes because you think pain will distract you from all the annoying celebrating? Or because stabbing me will make you feel better?"
"Something like that." She smiled enigmatically, went into the bathroom, and came out with a wad of cotton balls and a safety pin. -- Holly Black
I throw away stacks of newspaper and catalogs, bills that probably went unpaid for years, plastic bags of hangers and wires, and the hockey stick. -- Holly Black
You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
In general, her family wasn't very good at talking about important stuff. And of all of them, she was the least good at it. When she tried, it felt like all the chains on all her imagined safes and trunks started rattling -- Holly Black
I think he thinks about girlfriend like some kind of honorary title, like the way that every president is still 'President So and So,' no matter who's currently in office. -- Holly Black
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. -- Holly Black
The light, by the light, by the light of the bloodred moon. I'll be killing you soon. -- Holly Black
The Thorn of Istra, her mind supplied. That's the Thorn of Istra.
Lots. He's killed lots and lots and lots. -- Holly Black
Of course, that was probably a problem with being an Evil Overlord. You didn't regret the right things. -- Holly Black
CALL REMOVED A small circle of oily pepperoni from his slice of pizza and slid his hand under the table. Immediately, he felt a wash of Havoc's wet tongue as the Chaos-ridden wolf inhaled the food. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them. -- Holly Black
Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins. -- Holly Black
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder. -- Holly Black
But I didnt do anything wrong.. Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them. -- Holly Black
At the window of my room, I catch my reflection in the glass. Shaggy black hair. Sneer.I look like a hungry ghost, glowering in at a world I am no longer fit to be a part of. -- Holly Black
I don't know, Call said. He was starting to worry that there weren't any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists. -- Holly Black
He closed his eyes. 'Don't,' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations. -- Holly Black
Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born. -- Holly Black
You're as cowardly as a g
weasel. You know that? A weasel. That's what you are."
"You don't know me," I say, spitting blood onto the dirt. I can't help it. I start to laugh. "And you obviously don't know much about weasels, either. -- Holly Black
Your family is badass," Sam says. "They set a high bar of badassery. -- Holly Black
There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story. -- Holly Black
Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her."
"If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer. -- Holly Black
She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered. -- Holly Black
In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as 'the people of peace,' 'the little people,' and 'the good neighbors.' -- Holly Black
Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?" Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. "Could you guys try to lay low? -- Holly Black
Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours. -- Holly Black
Please restrain your commentary on the furniture. -- Holly Black
It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?"
"Everything. -- Holly Black
Death's favorites don't die. -- Holly Black
I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover. -- Holly Black
When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons. -- Holly Black
I can't help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I'm already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming.
I think she figured I was joking. -- Holly Black
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them. -- Holly Black
The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him. -- Holly Black
None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it. -- Holly Black
You better have kissed him! You better have kissed him so hard that he just about choked on your tongue. And if not, you better go kiss him like that right now. -- Holly Black
There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming ... home. -- Holly Black
They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people. -- Holly Black
For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything. -- Holly Black
Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to. -- Holly Black
Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was
see if she would swallow a butt whole -- Holly Black
If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people? -- Holly Black
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? -- Holly Black
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. -- Holly Black
I'm not afraid," Zacharov says, still looking at Anton. "It takes guts to kill a man with your hands. You don't have the balls. -- Holly Black
You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see. -- Holly Black
Some things exist whether you believe in them or not -- Holly Black
Because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice. -- Holly Black
Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying -- Holly Black
Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment. -- Holly Black
Haven't you watched the feeds?" Winter asked her, more gently. "Vampires like anything and everything that keeps them from getting bored. Anything and everything." -- Holly Black
There's no way out," she reminded herself. "There's only what you do before you die. -- Holly Black
If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic. -- Holly Black
I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought. -- Holly Black
Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad. -- Holly Black
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
She wanted to tell him about Valentina and how she had to go, how she'd promised she's help, and how she would help, except that right then she didn't want to help anyone so much as to kiss him and maybe bite him again, too, but mostly kiss him and do all the things that came after kissing. -- Holly Black
Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love. -- Holly Black
I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers. -- Holly Black
Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother. -- Holly Black
It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall. -- Holly Black
I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires. -- Holly Black
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight? -- Holly Black
The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off. -- Holly Black
Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically
an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be?
Seriously, what else could go wrong? -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected. -- Holly Black
That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting. -- Holly Black
Follow that lizard! -- Holly Black
That's the spirit. Aaron hid a grin. He was already wearing his armband, just above his elbow. Somehow he managed to make it look cool. Call had tied his around his forearm and was fairly sure it looked like a bandage. -- Holly Black
You're mixing your metaphors. It gives me a headache. -- Holly Black
You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game. -- Holly Black
Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it's a good technique. -- Holly Black
You are more dangerous than daybreak. -- Holly Black
But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there."
"We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't."
"What are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?"
"Pretty much. -- Holly Black
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman
taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts. -- Holly Black
Into every generation comes a vampire. -- Holly Black
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy. -- Holly Black
He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies. -- Holly Black
Lucien," Gavriel said, "if you're proposing a duel, I believe she gets to pick the weapon. I hope she picks me. -- Holly Black
Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty. -- Holly Black
Don't forget to smolder! -- Holly Black
I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts. -- Holly Black
Aaron looks like a con man who got hit with a shrink ray and you look like you're going to Catholic school. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that. -- Holly Black
Maybe I didn't spend decades with you like Lucien did, but I bet I can make you laugh faster than he could. -- Holly Black
Don't just yell France! There are a lot of other countries. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile. -- Holly Black
'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.' -- Holly Black
He was ruinously beautiful in the way that knives and scalpels can be beautiful -- Holly Black
They took lots of things they had no right to. -- Holly Black
A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."
No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die."
Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die. -- Holly Black
water wants to flow, -- Holly Black
How are you?" he asked softly.
"Well," Tana said. "Every new outfit I get, I manage to ruin within a few hours."
His grin was immediate, his gaze going to her dress and then away. "Leather wipes down. -- Holly Black
Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes. -- Holly Black
It's amazing how we hide from that, isn't it? How much of the violence of the universe comes from the unwillingness to say those two little words: 'I'm scared. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me. -- Holly Black
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying. -- Holly Black
I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him. -- Holly Black
Changing is what people do when they have no options left. -- Holly Black
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. -- Holly Black
The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true. -- Holly Black
It was as if whatever demon possessed them, whatever force kept their corpses from the grave, had refined them in the blaze of its power, burning away their humanity to reveal something finer. -- Holly Black
No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets. -- Holly Black
If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks. -- Holly Black
Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row. -- Holly Black
Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does. -- Holly Black
It was so strange to be touched so gently by a creature like him- a creature who looked just like the kind of boy who you might let touch your thigh for a totally different reason. -- Holly Black
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
C'mon, Alec," Damien said. "Sung just wants us to win." "No," I said. "Sung only wants us to win. There's a difference." Damien and the others looked at me blankly. This was not, I remembered, a word-choice crowd. -- Holly Black
I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I'm sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I'm ridiculous. I get that you think I'm hilarious. I know, I get that you're mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know. -- Holly Black
He smiled, a real smile, the kind real boys gave real girls. "It's been a very long time since anyone worried for me. -- Holly Black
Sometimes," Sam says, "I can't tell when you're lying."
"I never lie," I lie. -- Holly Black
I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity. -- Holly Black
Ruthless. That's my girl. -- Holly Black
I don't have the words. I want to touch her, but I don't deserve it. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
FULL MOON IS IN THREE DAYS TIME. COME TO THE REVEL. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO RHYME. -- Holly Black
You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. -- Holly Black
It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt.
After all, hell is supposed to be hot. -- Holly Black
We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far. -- Holly Black
The downside of letting everyone know you're going to be all alone so they can attack you is that everyone knows you'll be all alone so they can attack you. -- Holly Black
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves. -- Holly Black
Each person seemed to have a destination, but Val was a piece of driftwood, spinning down a river, not even sure in what direction she was moving. But she knew how to make herself spin faster. -- Holly Black
The human soul is the opposite of chaos, of nothingness. The soul is everything. -- Holly Black
I had a tutor who wanted me to believe that mercy is a kind of sorrow and that since evil is the motive of sorrow, evil is also the motive of mercy. I thought that my tutor was old and cruel, and maybe he was - but now I think he was also right. -- Holly Black
But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them? -- Holly Black
You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much. -- Holly Black
Her mother bent close, the smell of whiskey and beer and sweat as familiar as any perfume to Kaye. -- Holly Black
I'll help you protect her," Sam says. "If you want to."...
"Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her? -- Holly Black
We got it." Val grinned and lifted her fist. "Wonder twin powers activate!"
Ruth grinned back, knocking her fist into Val's. "Shape of two fucking lunatics. -- Holly Black
Hazel kissed boys for all kinds of reasons
because they were cute, because she was a little drunk, because she was bored, because they let her, because it was fun, because they looked lonely, because it blotted out her fears for a while, because she wasn't sure how many kisses she had left. -- Holly Black
What an author doesn't know could fill a book. -- Holly Black
It's the flaw that brings out the beauty. -- Holly Black
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? -- Holly Black
Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways. -- Holly Black
You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
His uniform sleeve was burned away and his arm seemed to be glowing from the inside, like a piece of kindling in a fire.
Fire wants to burn, Call thought. -- Holly Black
Is he going to- will he live?"
"No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me."
"Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay? -- Holly Black
One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different. -- Holly Black
The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish. -- Holly Black
They were just buying time in scrapes and tatters. -- Holly Black
What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark. -- Holly Black
I envy what I fear and hate what I envy. -- Holly Black
She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster. -- Holly Black
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want. -- Holly Black
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone
desire so acute that it became despair. -- Holly Black
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. -- Holly Black
I survive at the edge of friends circles. -- Holly Black
Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books. -- Holly Black
Normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach. Once normal had been a heavy, smothering blanket she feared being trapped beneath. But now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string. -- Holly Black
You in trouble? Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he's thinking about how to get out of here if I am. -- Holly Black
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself. -- Holly Black
Believe what you can handle believing -- Holly Black
One night you will ask me for something I cannot give. -- Holly Black
There are dog people and cat people. -- Holly Black
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. -- Holly Black
Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels. -- Holly Black
Love changes us, but we change how we love too. -- Holly Black
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it. -- Holly Black
She'd known he'd understand. Brothers and sisters had their own language, their own shorthand. She was glad to be able to share the weird, ridiculous impossibleness of it with the only person who knew all the same stories, with the person who'd made those stories in the first place. (pg. 117) -- Holly Black
Oh yeah,Call said under his breath. I'm the crazy one. Nothing to worry about at the ole Magisterium. Evil pony school, here we come. Pg. 58 -- Holly Black
It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it -- Holly Black
The only way to end grief was to go through it. -- Holly Black
He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke. -- Holly Black
Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves. -- Holly Black
Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it. -- Holly Black
Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting. -- Holly Black
Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get. -- Holly Black
There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth. -- Holly Black
I swear to fucking God, I will spray you again, -- Holly Black
We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others. -- Holly Black
When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining. -- Holly Black
He grips my shoulder. His fingers dig in the knotted muscles in a way that feels good. Brotherly. -- Holly Black
Simple lies are always better than a complicated truth. -- Holly Black
You really dug your own grave," he mutters. "And I'm going to bury you in it."
"Say that louder," I tell him, under my breath. "I dare you. -- Holly Black
He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be. -- Holly Black
When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released? -- Holly Black
We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of. -- Holly Black
You shouldn't let it bother you," Drew said earnestly. "That's just babble. It doesn't mean anything. None of you are going to die and you're obviously not dead. For Pete's sake. -- Holly Black
I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING. -- Holly Black
Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied? -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
Her screams spiraled up into the night air -- Holly Black
You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked. -- Holly Black
You've got to grow where you're planted -- Holly Black
If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. -- Holly Black
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. -- Holly Black
I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling. -- Holly Black
Lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here -- Holly Black
Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices. -- Holly Black
He had green eyes so clear and bright that they made you think of poisonous drinks or maybe mouthwash. -- Holly Black
Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial. -- Holly Black
Call's stomach felt as if it wanted to curl up inside him like a kicked puppy. -- Holly Black
She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake. -- Holly Black
Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine. -- Holly Black
Everybody dies alone, Jameson said, and kept going. Not everybody wakes up right after. -- Holly Black
But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it's gone. The door isn't there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare. -- Holly Black
They scattered. THE NEXT DAY was more sand and more tiredness. That -- Holly Black
Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier. -- Holly Black
After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost. -- Holly Black
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research. -- Holly Black
It was a vow, a piece of a chant, their scripture, something they took so seriously that saying it aloud embarrassed them. -- Holly Black
It's sweet. All this trouble for a kitty. -- Holly Black
Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
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. -- Holly Black
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want. -- Holly Black
I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done. -- Holly Black
I have no idea what to say to him. "The Latin Club is totally evil," I blurt.
"The Latin Club?"
I can understand why he's confused. -- Holly Black
Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke. -- Holly Black
Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As -- Holly Black
You sure you want to cross me?
In that moment she's her father's daughter. -- Holly Black
Call went through much of the next day in a daze. -- Holly Black
She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own. -- Holly Black
I guess I knew it wasn't a game, but I ran anyway and I boosted myself up on the water spigot and poured through the window with the boneless grace of little kids. -- Holly Black
When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name. -- Holly Black
I don't lie," I lied. -- Holly Black
Everything's better when you say it in Latin. -- Holly Black
It turned our that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place. -- Holly Black
Can you save yourself? -- Holly Black
Summer was supposed to be the best part of the year, but so far Nikki's summer sucked. It sucked hard. It sucked like a vacuum that got hold of the drapes. -- Holly Black
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con. -- Holly Black
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. -- Holly Black
That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else. -- Holly Black
Can't get away from your own self. -- Holly Black
It unnerved her, how not wrong he was. -- Holly Black
He looks like the good boy he's never been. -- Holly Black
The Lady or The Tiger,'
...
'My lady, the tiger, -- Holly Black
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof. -- Holly Black
Writers usually don't get to pick our own covers. I know it's surprising to hear that. -- Holly Black
