Quotes from Holly Black

I am no murderer," says Cardan, surprising me. I would not have thought that was something to be proud of.

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.

Little did Prince Dain know that my real skill lies in pissing people off.

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?

It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt. After all, hell is supposed to be hot.

A king is not his crown.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Do not touch her A terrible silence follows. I wait for him to pronounce judgment on me. Whatever he commands will be done. His power is absolute. I don't even have the strength to fight back. Whatever can you mean? Randalin says. She's ----- She is my wife, Cardan says

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.

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.

Mutually assured destruction.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow

We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside.

I am not sure I sleep, but I do dream.

Jude. You are in no mood for games, very well. I am in no mood for them, either. Let me write it outright; You are pardoned. I revoke your banishment. I rescind my words. Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.

We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others.

You put a curse on that girl over there," I tell him. "Fix her immediately ." "She admired my ears," the boy says. "I was only giving her what she desired. A party favor." "That's what I am going to say after I gut you and use your entrails as streamers," I tell him. "I was only giving him what he wanted. After all, if he didn't want to be eviscerated, he would have honored my very reasonable request.

I hate being a fool. I hate the idea of my emotions getting the better of me, making me weak. But my fear of being a fool turned me into one.

For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me." I make a face at him. "And what made you decide it wasn't?" He grins up at me. "They missed.

Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry

You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.

It is at that unfortunate moment that one of the knights stops me. "You. Mortal girl in the mask," he says. "You smell like blood." I turn. Frustrated and desperate as I am, I blurt out the first thing that comes to me. "Well, I am mortal. And a girl, sir. We bleed every month, just like moon swells.

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