Quotes from Holly Black

Just another dull night in Fairfold, where everyone's a lunatic or an elf.

What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school?" I ask. It shouldn't bother me that he's fitting in so well. So what if he's faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.

You've manipulated the High King of Faerie into obeying you, but you can't find a way to manipulate one jerk into keeping our sister happy?

It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time. The memory of his mouth on mine shimmers in the air between us.

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

It turns out birds can't really buy pizza, even if they're enchanted.

Some people have stuffed animals," Aaron said with a shrug. "Other people have knives.

nothing I could do to you will be as terrible as what you'll do to yourself.

One doesn't have to lie to deceive.

that's my wife!

You are evil," I tell Lila. "Flatterer," she says, but she smiles.

I think I really am back this time, Call, Aaron's voice said. Now what the heck are we going to do?

Mad as a dog. Mad as a god.

The job is not to get caught.

If you were willing to trade him away, even for an hour, then you don't deserve him. I'll keep them both to raise as my own and let that be our judgment on you for breaking and oath with us. (pg. 9)

I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am goinng to be something else.

No, I cannot see myself serving Balekin.

And now she was sixteen and felt like she had no imagination left.

I guess it's true; no one will ever love you like your family.

Leaves don't grow back onto a vine, cracked walnuts don't fit back into their shells, and girlfriends who've been enchanted don't just wake up and decide to let things slide with their terrifying exes.

I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try.' 'And?' she asks. 'I didn't like it,' he admits. 'Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own.' 'I think you have iron poisoning,' she tells him, which could possibly be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.

I cannot seem to contort myself back into the shape of a dutiful child. I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.

Tell me. Has your daughter made the journey with you?" "She is here," the hag says. A girl steps from the crowd to bow low before Cardan. She is young, with a mass of unbound hair. Like her mother, her limbs are oddly long and twig-like, but where her mother is unsettlingly bony, she has a kind of grace. Maybe it helps that her feet resemble human ones. Although, to be fair, they are turned backward.

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