Quotes from Holly Black

The point of a fight is not to have a good fight, it's to win.

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's flint, you're tinder.

Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.

I raise a plastic glass. "To family." "And Faerieland," says Taryn, raising hers. "And pizza," says Oak. "And stories," says Heather. "And new beginnings," says Vivi. Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. "And scheming great schemes." To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.

But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.

I am tired of caring," I say. "Why should I?" "Because they could kill you!" "They better," I say to her. "Because anything less than that isn't going to work.

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

Show your power by appearing powerless.

Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued," Cardan says. "For once.

The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness.

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

You don't know how long I've waited to hear those words," he says. "You don't want me dead.

Death's favorites don't die.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.

She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me. "We would be surprised to find that," I call back.

Come be angry at a nearer distance