Quotes from Holly Black

But standing in front of Midnight, knowing what actually happened, Tana could see that Midnight wasn't just telling a story to other people, she was telling a story to herself.

I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for you honour.' 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. The hospitality of knives.

party. Right. She'd been at a sundown party.

Grounded and kept home from the Collegium for a whole year for making out with Evil Overlord Alex. Also for joining his evil army of evil.

It's beautiful, no?' he asks, a little smile on his face. A light in his fox eyes. It is, of course. All of Faerie is beautiful like this, with carnage hidden just beneath.

The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.

I am not drinking that," Jasper said. "I am a deWinter. We do not froth.

You're in a prickly mood,' he tells me. As though I am not all-over briars at all times.

Charmers are charming, but that's all they are.

And I'm not afraid of your trying to figure out what it means to be your whole self

Maybe being human isn't always being weak.

I am going to kill you," Tamara said very calmly. "I am going to sort your guts into piles.

Looking over at the lump of comforter and jackets and shadow where Gavriel was hiding, she took a deep breath. "I won't leave you," she told Aidan. "I promise." No one else was going to get killed today, not if she could save them. Certainly not someone she'd once thought she loved, even if he was a jerk. Not some dead boy full of good advice. And she hoped not herself, either.

I feel all around me the closing of a trap, and yet I do not think I am the one who is meant to be caught.

I have struck the Prince of Elfhame. Oh, I am in trouble now.

They say that he can talk flowers into opening their petals at night, as though his face were that of the sun. He'll steal your heart.

I'm not even a little bit dead.

I can't believe I was worried magic school was going to be so dangerous," Call said, squinting at the sand pile. "You could die of boredom," said Aaron. Call snickered. Tamara looked up at them miserably. "The thought of that is the only thing that's going to keep me going.

The basement smelled damp, like mold and minerals, as she started down the creaking, wooden stairs. Her mother had stopped screaming the moment the door opened. Everything was very quiet as Tana descended, the scratch of her shoes on the wood loud in her ears. Her foot hesitated on the last step. Then something knocked her down.

He presses his mouth to the pulse point of my wrist, racing in time with my heart. '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.

We're not sorting sand because of Call. We're sorting sand because of me. - Tamara

She loved him so much that it already hurt. It already felt like he'd broken her heart.

no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.