Quotes from Holly Black

You're no killer. He has no idea what I am.

Cardan grabs my face, fingers splayed against my neck. His breath is against my cheek. His other hand grabs my hair, winding it into a rope. --- "Get down on your knees," Cardan says, looking insufferably pleased with himself. His fury has transmuted into gloating. "Beg. Make it petty. Flowery. Worthy of me.

This house feels unfamiliar and disturbingly full of possibilities.

By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms.

We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.

love doesn't grow well, fed on pain.

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.

Ah." He sat down on the couch, looking stunned with lack of sleep. "And so you came here in the middle of the night?

Is he going to- will he live?" "No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me." "Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay?

You're nothing. The human species pretends it is so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn't lie to yourselves, you'd cut your own throats to end your misery.

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

As a child, Wren read lots of fairy tales. That's why, when the monsters came, she knew it was because she had been wicked.

But first, blot out a few more sparks. Drown a few more stars.

they seemed like talismans that might actually keep the monsters at bay. Until she realized that she was one of the monsters.

Madoc seemed like the sort to roast him over a fire, consume his flesh, and call it love. By then, I had become familiar with love of that kind.

She was a poisoned well of a girl.

Seems like Death came back for me." He grinned, a subtly odd grin that somehow made her smile back. "You drove him off again. Sleep, Tana. I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. We have been adversaries for so long that we are closer than friends.

It was so strange to be touched so gently by a creature like him- a creature who looked just like the kind of boy who you might let touch your thigh for a totally different reason.

It seems I have a singular taste for woman who threaten me.

You keep talking, but you're not making any sense. Of course you upset someone in the government. You pretended to be the governor of New Jersey and confessed to a bunch of crimes." I can't help the small smile that's playing at the corners of my mouth. "So," I say, "how did it go over?

Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser también la cura.

She didnt have to command me, Jude. She didnt have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you. Page 300

It is my belief that books are living things.

I wanted so badly to believe that being in Dain's service was an honor, that he was someone worth following. That's what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it's rotten before you gobble it down.