Quotes from 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.

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.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

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.

I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I have been considering doing a guide on my website so that a reader who liked one of my books could find the other books that he or she might like, because I know some of the books are really different from the rest.

Love changes us, but we change how we love too.

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

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.

whatever you love, that is your weakness

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.

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she'll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

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.

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another's cries of love.

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.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

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.