Quotes from Holly Black

Maybe I didn't spend decades with you like Lucien did, but I bet I can make you laugh faster than he could.

Madoc described fighting as a lot of things, as a game of strategy played at speed, as a dance, but right now it feels like a argument. Like an argument where she's keeping me too busy defending myself to score any points.

Alex is the one... He's the spy. - Call

She wanted to tell him about Valentina and how she had to go, how she'd promised she's help, and how she would help, except that right then she didn't want to help anyone so much as to kiss him and maybe bite him again, too, but mostly kiss him and do all the things that came after kissing.

I wasnt kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasnt sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that i would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone---truly gone beneath the waves---I hated myself as i never have before.

You ought to be on my side,' he says, looking hurt. 'I was poisoned.' 'That's another good reason for me to go in your place,' Tiernan puts in. 'Pragmatist,' says Oak, as though it's a dirty word.

You will not always be so small or so frightened,' she told me. 'You are a queen.

Psychics were therapists for people who couldn't admit they needed therapy. They were magic for people who desperately needed a little magic, back before magic was real

Remember when . . . ? Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.

I cannot lie. I cannot deny you. Page 305

I imagine what it would be like to have my own crown, my own power. Maybe I wouldnt have to be afraid to love him. Page 305

Barron's stuck teaching me. It's supposed to be just for a few months, until I graduate from Wallingford. Let's see if we can stand each other that long.

Aidan pulled against his bonds. "They keep talking to him in a whole bunch of languages. A lot of French. Something about the Thorn of Istra. I think he's in trouble." "Are you?" Tana asked. "Not exactly," said Gavriel.

They ran through the night together in a darkling fairy tale of blood and forests and snow, of girls with raven's wing hair and rose-red lips and sharp teeth as white as milk.

if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.

La ausencia aminora las pequeñas pasiones y agranda las grandes.

Well, wife,' he says to me, a chill in his voice. 'It seems you have kept at least one secret from your dowry.

A king is not his throne nor his crown.

Coldtown was dangerous. Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them.

You can't play pretend forever.

Oh, God, Call thought. Tamara's father. And he'd just kissed Tamara. Was that why Mr. Rajavi was here? Don't be totally ridiculous, said Aaron. Do you think he's psychic or something? Kimiya was grounded for making out with Evil Overlord Alex — Tamara had said so. Mr. Rajavi had a well-established policy of not liking his children making out with Evil Overlords.

She's going to want to wear your skull for a hat,' Oak warns. There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment. 'And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.

Looking back, Val knew she had a habit of trusting too much, being too passive, too willing to believe the best of others and the worst of herself.

I am ready to eat out of the prince's hand as tamely as a dove. It's too easy. I'm hungry for kindness. Hungry for attention. I want and want and want.