Quotes from Holly Black

He would make out with girls in front of her. He would make out with boys in front of her. He would wink at her from across rooms, daring her to criticize him.

Perhaps I am foolish, but I am not a fool.

Parece que tengo un gusto singular por las mujeres que me amenazan.

I want to scream at him! Do you know how hard it is to always keep your head down? To swallow insults and endure outright threats? And yet I have done so. I thought it proved my toughness. I thought if you saw I could take whatever came at me and still smile, you would see that I was worthy.

I say, because if she doesn't want to talk about that part, she doesn't have to.

I hate you,¨ I whisper before he can speak. He tilts my face to his. ¨Say it again,¨ he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly, stinking crown on my head. His voice is low. The words are for me alone. I pull out of his grip, but not before I see his expression. He looks as he did when he was forced to answer my questions, when he admitted his desire for me. He looks as though he´s confessing. page 104-105

I don't mind being one-handed,but if you're going to restrain both of my hands , then you'll have to pour wine directly into my mouth

Try not to get killed by some handsome, paranoid elf who thinks he's stuck in a ballad. I'll try not to flunk out of physics.

There is only now. There is only tomorrow and tonight and now and soon and never.

I grab a chair. "I don't mean to pry," I say, "but we're in a hospital. You sure you're fine?" She sighs heavily. "No getting anything past you, huh?" "I also often notice when water is wet. I have a keen detective's mind like that.

Fine, fine, everyone's fine," the vampire said. "Fine as scattered pieces of sand.

Jude,¨ he´d said, running a hand up my calf, ¨are you afraid of me?¨ page 207

Jasper," said Call. "Tell me something, and please answer honestly." Jasper nodded. "Is this the Assembly's new strategy for torturing me until I give them information?

Algunos entre nosotros no encuentran a los mortales hermosos. De hecho, algunos de ustedes podrían jurar que Jude es poco atractiva. Pero yo creo que es sólo que su belleza es... única. Enloquecedora. Alarmante. Angustiante.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

And when he kisses me, it feels as though I can finally breathe again.

How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.

Um," he said, because his conversational skills were amazing.

Call stroked his head. Alex laughed. "Stupid animal." Tamara bristled. "Don't talk about Havoc that way." "Who says I was talking about Havoc?

Knowledge and action are one and the same.

They see themselves in you and are blinded.

Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.

I do not have endless patience," Balekin growls. "Cultivate it," Cardan says, and with a small bow, he navigates us away from Balekin and Madoc.

It unnerved her, how not wrong he was.