Quotes from Holly Black

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I feel as if you have carried it long before that.

I have heard that for mortals,the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear

Their laughter floods the hallway, sounding like the cawing of crows.

His hand comes up with a cloth smelling of cloying sweetness. He presses it over my nose and mouth. I feel my limbs go loose, and a moment later, I feel nothing at all.

Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.

Prince Cardan, sixth-born to the High King Eldred, yet still the absolute worst, strides across the floor toward us

Then Grima Mog is there on her stag, taking the weight of his blade. Their weapons slam together, ringing with the force of the impact. "First I am going to kill you," she tells him. "And then I am going to eat you.

Maura, you are a goddess. I will carve your likeness in mashed potatoes so all can worship you like I do. When you leave Philip, will you marry me?

Fishies. Fishies. Putting on their feet. Marry a fish and life will be sweet. Fry her in a pan and pick out her bones. Fishy blood is cold 'top a throne.

Everything stops. No air is in my lungs. There is a pain in my chest as though my heart cannot bear. As though something inside me is cracking. As though I am going to come apart.

Grima Mog whirls away, battling three knights from the Court of Teeth. She must have known them once, must have commanded them, but she fights them just the same.

Someone poisoned the High King, and he is going to laugh and dance himself to death in front of a Court that will veer between delight and disgust. They will think him ridiculous as his heart stops.

Three is an odd configuration of sisters. There's always one on the outside

There's always something left to lose

You know what the sun looks like?" Kaye asked. There was only a little more than a slice of red where the sea met the sky. "No, what?" Janet said, holding the lipgloss out to Kaye. "Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water." "That's gross, Kaye." "And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.

Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties.

Si no puedo ser mejor que ellos, seré mucho peor.

And you." "I knew little else, but I always knew you.

A sword is a weapon of war, a dagger is a weapon of murder.

Hier", sagt Vivi und reicht Papierkronen herum. "Wie albern", sage ich und setze meine auf den Kopf. Cardan betrachtet sein Spiegelbild in der Mikrowelle und richtet die Krone so, dass sie schief sitzt.

She's right to be worried. I just declared war

As she does, she speculates about all the aspects of the mortal world she's going to have to explain to Dad. "Like cell phones," she says. "Or self-checkout in the grocery store. Oh, this is going to be amazing. Seriously, his exile is the best present you ever got me." "You know that he's going to be so bored that he's going to try to micromanage your life," Taryn says. "Or plan your invasion of a neighboring apartment building

Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, I was at may worst, I felt powerful, animist of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.

Kaye wondered if everyone felt like there was a monster underneath their skin. It was obvious that the relief wasn't the largest part of what he felt. It was obvious that he was in pain, that he'd been crying. And yet it was what he was dwelling on, an imperfect mourning.