Quotes from Holly Black

There is always something left to lose.

Tana," Aidan said as soon as he saw her. "Tana, they're going to come in as soon as it's dark. They told us." He looked pale and frantic, worse than she remembered him looking when she'd left. "We're going to die, Tana." "Condamné à mort," a voice rasped from the other side of the door. She could hear the creatures whispering to one another in the hall, shifting hungrily, waiting for the sun to set. Her hands shook.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks,'' Taryn says. ''Or when they happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

Long live Jude,' she says with a wink, setting down the tray on a table with a clatter of the pots and saucers and whatnot. 'No thanks to me.' I grin. 'Good thing you're a lousy shot.' She holds up a packet of herbs. 'A poultice. To draw any fever from the blood and help the patient heal faster. Unfortunately, it won't draw the sting from your tongue.

I liked you, you know," he says. "I like you still." For a moment, I wonder what would happen if I hauled off and punched him.

La ambición es muy curiosa: puedes contraerla como si fuera una fiebre, pero no es tan fácil desprenderte de ella

I don't now if you noticed , but the guy is a real jerk

Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.

Jude never loved Locke." My face feels hot, but my shame is an excellent cover to hide behind. "She loved someone else. He's the one she'd want dead.

When it's done, we'll be like brothers," said the devil. "I already have a brother," Gavriel slurred. "He's dead." The devil loomed over him, his grin widening to show off sharp teeth. "As am I." Gavriel opened his mouth to shout, but drunk as he was, he began to laugh instead.

Randalin rushes toward the door, nearly running into Heather in his haste. He blinks at her in astonishment, clearly not prepared for the presence of a second mortal. Then he departs, avoiding even a glance in my direction. 'Big horns,' Heather mouths, looking after him. 'Little dude.' Cardan leans against the doorframe, looking very satisfied with himself.

Their smiles hurt. Everything hurt.

Only in Faerieland is a giant toad the less conspicuous choice.

I can feel myself start to tremble

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

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 all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing.

There are many things I don't know, but I know a great deal about imprisonment.

I wasn't kind Jude, not to many people, not to you. I wasn't sure 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.

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de conservar.

To the incompetence of our enemies.

how am I supposed to be worse than the folk ?

Have I drunk too much? Merely a cup of poison for my breakfast and another for my dinner," Cardan says.

Deny it, then," I yell. "Deny me!" He cannot, of course, so he does not.

more than anything, i hate you because i think about you often. it's disgusting and i can't stop