Quotes from Holly Black

If I cannot be better than them, I will be so much worse.

We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.

it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

He smiled, a real smile, the kind real boys gave real girls. "It's been a very long time since anyone worried for me.

Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As

Try to think of it as the end scene in Star Wars where everyone cheers and Princess Leia puts medals on Han and Luke." Call

It's not what you think," Vince said from the mouth of the hall. He didn't turn, so she couldn't even try to interpret his expression. The humor had left his voice, though. "Oh, yeah?" she called after him. "Then why are you leaving?" "Because it's worse.

Holy moly. - Jasper

All is interrelated, said one. Fire and earth, air and water. All are but one thing, not four, not two, and not three, but one. Where they are not together is only an incomplete piece. A

Her mother bent close, the smell of whiskey and beer and sweat as familiar as any perfume to Kaye.

The Thorn of Istra , her mind supplied. That's the Thorn of Istra. Lots. He's killed lots and lots and lots.

The title was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. He frowned at it in confusion. It wasn't what he'd thought a mortal book would be like; he thought they would be dull things, odes to their cars or skyscrapers.

Quick, make a wish. Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

Across the room, Cardan raises a goblet. "Be welcome on the Isle of Insmire," he says. "Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor." His gaze goes to me. "To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.

He liked the way the story unfolded as he wrote, liked the way the answers just came to him sometimes, out of the blue, like they were true things just waiting to be discovered by him.

I look at him again, at his soft mouth and his high cheekbones, at the cruel beauty of his face. page 142

Cardan Greenbriar.

And that is why you ought not dramatically vow to obey someone,' I say, a growl in my voice. 'They seldom ask for what you hope they will.

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. Once, I was content to hope for knighthood and the power to force Cardan and his friends to leave me alone. All I wanted was to find some place to fit in here in Faerie. Now I wonder what it would be like to choose the next king.

He oído que para los mortales, la sensación de enamorarse es muy parecida a la sensación de miedo. Tu corazón late rápido. Tus sentidos se intensifican. Te sientes aturdido, tal vez incluso mareado. ¿No es cierto? Explicaría mucho sobre los de tu clase si es posible confundir los dos.

The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him.

I hate seeing him with Nicasia. I hate the thought of his touching her. I hate that this is my plan, that I have no one to be angry with but myself. I am an idiot. Page 173

But how did she make you agree?" I demand. "She has no power. She could pretend to be me, but she couldn't force you—" He puts his head in his long-fingered hands. "She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

You think a lizard is trying to kill me? And he faked a note from Celia? - Call