Quotes from Holly Black

I turn and press the point of my knife directly underneath his chin. 'Jude?' he asks, up against the wall, pronouncing my name carefully, as though to avoid slurring. I am not sure I have ever heard him use my actual name before. 'Surprised?' I ask, a fierce grin starting on my face. The most important boy in Faerie and my enemy, finally in my power. It feels even better than I thought it would. 'You shouldn't be.

He peers down at me. 'You're a liar,' he says, eyes glittering with fury. 'A dirty, mortal liar.

It takes us a long time to wend our way back down the stairs. My hands are in his hair. His mouth is on my neck. My back is against the ancient stone wall. Everything is slow and perfect and makes no sense at all. This can't be my life. This feels nothing like my life.

If we didn't have to take lessons alongside them, if I didn't know firsthand what a scourge they were to those who displeased them, I'd probably be as in love with them as everyone else is.

His eyes narrow on the blood, and he points the wooden stick at me. 'You seem to have cut yourself.' I wonder if he's surprised that I'm alive. I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. I take the knife out from under my tunic and show it to him, stained a flinty red. I smile. 'I could cut you, too.

Interesting." He takes another step closer, squatting and regarding us from eye level. "There are so few children in Faerie that I've never seen one of us twinned. Is it like being doubled or more like being divided in half?

If Oak is the sunlight filtering through trees in the woods, all shifting gold and shadow, then Tiernan seems like those same woods in winter, the branches barren and cold.

You cannot believe he males a better High King than I would." I look Madoc in the eyes, and my mouth makes the words before I can snatch them back. "Maybe I believe that it's time for Elfhame to be ruled by a queen.

It was terrifying,' he says, 'watching you fall. I mean, you're generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before.' 'Mortals are fragile,' I say. 'Not you,' he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. 'You never break.

Hate that felt so good that he welcomed being consumed by it. Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire.

I was passed out cold while my family was murdered. It's hard to fall more lowly that that.

The ragwort steeds are there in front of the apartment complex- starved-looking yellow ponies with lacy manes and emerald eyes, like sea horses on land, weeds come to snorting, snuffling life.

Looking at their faces, I suddenly realize I know them. It's the Latin Club. Diego, Jenny, Ashley, Mike, and David. And their advisor, Ms. Esposito. Geeks, one and all. My people. 'What are you doing?' My words come out slurred. 'Bringing Bacchanalia to Wallingford,' said Jenny. 'And you're going to help us.

Across the room, Cardan raises a goblet. 'Be welcome in the Isle of Insmire,' he says. '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.

Só idiotas não têm medo de coisas assustadoras.

You don't know how long I've waited to hear those word,' he says. 'You don't want me dead.' 'If you joke about this, I am going to-' 'Kill me?' He asks, raising both black brows. I think I might hate him after all.

They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever.

I imagine Locke taking my hands tonight, imagine him sweeping me around the hill.

Maybe Taryn isn't the only one who has decided to fall in love.

I have had little fun in my life so far. The promise of more is difficult to resist.

when he kisses me, i feel as though i can finally breathe again

Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us

I look to see that it's the worst person possible: Cardan.