Quotes from Holly Black

For what we want most, we will take almost any chance.

After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing.

Since no one loves me, I'll go.

I think you have iron poisoning," she tells him, which could be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.

He had green eyes so clear and bright that they made you think of poisonous drinks or maybe mouthwash.

She fell asleep like a flame being extinguished.

When we fall that first time, we're not really in love with the girl. We're in love with being in love. We've got no idea what she's really about—or what she's capable of. We're in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We're idiots.

El te odia. Incluso si te desea, te odia. Tal vez te odia más por eso.

He leans in and closes his eyes. "Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop." I am shocked into silence.

But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.

He reaches up and presses my hand to his face. ¨Its funny, isnt it, how i mocked you for your mortality when you´re certain to outlive me.¨ ¨You´re not going to die,¨ I insist. Page 289

Would an Evil Overlord drink the last cup of coffee in the pot? Which book would an Evil Overlord take out from the library? Was dressing in all black a definite Evil Overlord move, or a legitimate choice on laundry day?

I've loved you from the first hour of our meeting. I loved you and despaired. Before I die, I want you to know that.

If I didn't have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.

I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this.

I hope to be able to decide for myself - when we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it that something inside of us has been released?

There is too little beauty in the world,' says the prince airily. 'But that is not my area of greatest conceit.

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.

Your family is badass," Sam says. "They set a high bar of badassery.

Instead of being afraid, I will become something to fear.

But even with distance between us, the longing to touch him persists

You really do want me.¨ I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. ¨And you hate it.¨ page 307

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.