Quotes from Holly Black

No one in chains could ever truly love you.' He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?' The truth of that hits like a blow.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at al. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten and scabrous thing. But it is yours.

Let me be feared and never again afraid.

Space is so dark that looking out at it confounds the brain. The more you stare at the vastness of it, at the hanging stars and the swirling galaxies, the more you start to notice how imprecise words like 'dark' and 'black' and 'endless' are. There are so many gradients of shadow, all of them terrifying to me. That's why I keep the lights on.

Hole in the head, hole in the heart, or hole in the pocket. The Hall family curse.

Mom and Zacharov?" I shrug. "I know. It's weird, right? I'm trying really hard not to think about it." "You mean about the part that if Zacharov and Mom got married, that would make you and Lila brother and sister?

I didn't understand the horror of being so powerful and so utterly powerless all at the same time.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart's blood should run cold.

I have seen this place so many times in my night terrors that, even half-demolished, I cannot help but feel like I am in another awful dream.

It's you I love. I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so we'll that I could behave as though I didn't have one. Even now, it's a shabby, worm eaten, and scabrous thing. But it's yours… you probably guessed as much… but just incase you didn't

There had been plenty of books and films romanticizing vampires over the last century. It was only a matter of time before a vampire started romanticizing himself.

Te estaba imaginando a mi lado, Jude, dándome un montón de ridículas ordenes que, no obstante, obedecí.

Cardan's face is serious, almost grave, in a way that he seldom allows himself to be. "When my father sent me way, at first i tried to prove that i was nothing like he thought me. But when that didn't work, I tried to be exactly what he believed i was instead. If he thought i was bad, i would be worse. If he thought i was cruel, i would be horrifying. I would live down to his every expectation. If i couldn't have his favor, then i would have his wrath.

She says that if this were a movie, someone would find a poem about cursed snakes and it would give us the clue we needed

You can't help trying to charm every snake you come upon, no matter how cold-blooded or vicious. Let that one be.

He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into his arms.

But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your heart.

No approving of the Evil Overlords

If you were going to get someone's soul, Call thought, it would be nice if you also got their superior penmanship.

I may be rotten, but my one virtue is that I'm not a killer. I wanted to frighten you, but I never wanted you dead. I never wanted anyone dead.

After spending months living in the orderly dorms of Wallingford, where they give you a Saturday detention if your room doesn't pass semi-regular inspections, I feel the old conflicting sense of familiarity and disgust.

Come down, my beauty, my darling, my dove

I'll help you protect her," Sam says. "If you want to."... "Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her?