Quotes from Holly Black

I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when i look at him I can hardly breathe. page 30

Christmas is supposed to be this time when everyone is nice to one another and forgives one another and all that, but the true meaning of Christmas is presents . And in the real world, Santa's not fair. Rich kids get everything and poor kids get secondhand crap their parents bust their asses to afford. It costs money just to sit on Santa's lap.

You've got to grow where you're planted

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.

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.

What is a king without a crown? That's a riddle, but one to which we all know the answer: no king at all.

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.

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.

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.

Everything died in the Ice Citadel, but hope died first.

Jude, you cant really think I dont know its you. I knew it was you from the moment you stepped into the brugh. Page 69

How does it feel?" he asked. "To be stuck in a fairy tale?" "How does it feel to be one?

Let Cardan not be shot. Let the Ghost be clumsy. Let me get inside easily. Let me stop him. I do not pause to ask myself to ask why I am in such a panic to save someone for whom I swore I rooted out every feeling. I will not think about that. Page 141

Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.

Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home. Cardan

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.

We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it." — "I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor? One piece at a time.

If life were like a video game, she would have used her power move to whip Jen in the air and knock her against the wall with two strikes of a lacrosse stick. Of course, if life really were like a video game, Val would probably have to do that in a bikini and with giant breasts, each one made of separately animated polygons.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.

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.

It takes bravery to be an adventurer," Odette said, lifting her drink and walking away. "And what better adventure than the discovery of our true selves?

because she remembered things that hurt more easily than anything nice.

He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

It seems hopeless to fight something so vast. It seems ridiculous to believe we can win.