Quotes from Holly Black

Father, I am what you made me. I've become your daughter after all.

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.

This is my room," he points out, affronted. "And that's my wife." "So you keep telling everyone," the Bomb says. "But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don't think you want to watch that." "Oh, I don't know," I say. "Maybe he'd like to hear me scream." "I would," Cardan says, standing. "And perhaps one day I will.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks," Taryn says. "Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

Kill him before he makes you love him.

Into every generation comes a vampire.

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.

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.'

Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

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

'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

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.

That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them.

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