Quotes from Holly Black

I meet my sisters in front of Madoc's stables, where silver-shod faerie horses are penned up beside enormous toads ready to be saddled and bridled and reindeer with broad antlers hung with bells.

An ombre ball gown, its colour deepening from white near my throat, through palest blue to deepest indigo at my feet. Over that is stitched the stark outlines of trees, the way I see them from my window as dusk is falling. The seamstress has even sewn on little crystal beads to represent stars. This is a dress I could never have imagined, one so perfect that for a moment, looking at it, I can think of nothing but its beauty.

I remember how angry she was when Taryn and I gave in to Faerie and started having fun. Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night. But to hold a blade in my hand, a blade like the one that killed my parents, and think it was a toy, she'd have to believe I was heartless.

Jest tylko teraz. Tylko jutro, dziÅ› wieczór i teraz oraz jeszcze wkrótce i nigdy.

Run! I want to shout. But, of course, that's the one thing I don't need to tell her to do.

You ought not to be here tonight, little ant

Love is a noble cause,' Vivi reminded her. 'How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?

Niezale?nie od tego, iloma przedmiotami ?onglujesz, masz tylko dwie r?ce, wi?c rzuca? mo?esz tylko dwie rzeczy naraz. Po prostu musisz to zrobi? coraz szybciej i szybciej, rzuca? coraz wy?ej.

Better to take consorts,' Locke says. 'Lots and lots of consorts.' 'Spoken like a man about to enter wedlock,' Cardan reminds him.

Vuelve cuando regresar te parezca una decisión difícil.

What happiness do you have? Rutting and breeding. You'd go mad if you accepted the truth of what you are. You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die some pointless and agonizing death.

I like playing pretend with you.

Kiss me until I am sick of it... if you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure.

My wounded hand flies to cover my mouth in horror at the curse, as though to stop the scream, but I don't scream. I haven't screamed this whole time, and I am not going to start now, when there's nothing more to scream about.

Powiadaj?, ?e wi?cej si? uczymy na b??dach ni? wtedy, gdy odnosimy sukcesy.

She's there, throwing daggers at a painting of a sunset. 'You didn't like it?' I ask, pointing to the canvas. 'I liked it well enough,' she says. 'Now I like it better.

It is no small thing to pass judgement on the person who raised you, no matter what else they have done.

if his cruelty had the sharp edge of despair, if slights and taunts were all that fell from his tongue now, what did it matter? He had always been awful. Now he was just worse.

There it is. That temper you try to hide. You know what fascinates me about you? You're a hungry person sitting in front of a banquet, refusing to eat.

He draws back. 'You really are beautiful,' he says. I am ever so glad to know that they cannot lie.

He doesn't die very differently than mortals, although I am sure it would gall him to know that.

Musisz mie? do?? si?y, by zadawa? cios za ciosem, cios za ciosem, nie poddaj?c si? znu?eniu. To pierwsza rzecz, jakiej musisz si? nauczy? - jak wykrzesa? z siebie te si??.

I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. your heart beats fast. your senses are heighten. you grow light headed, maybe even a little dizzy.

I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted 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.