Quotes from Holly Black

My word isn't worth much,' I remind him. 'So you keep saying.' He raises his brows. 'It's not comforting, I've got to tell you.

I have seen what power does to people. And I have seen how those who pledge loyalty come to resent their oaths and wish for the destruction of the one who holds them. I was never less free than when I ruled.

I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.

Working for you will always be working for you.

Debo dejar de fantasear sobre huir hacia otra vida, y tratar de averiguar como vivir la que ya tengo. I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.

Charlie and Doreen had never been particularly friendly, but they knew some of the same people. And sometimes knowing someone for a long time seemed more important than liking them.

These clothes are a costume for me. I am playing dress-up in ignorance

It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.

It will not be easy to live on an island if I am tormented by the waves.

She acts like we don't remember, like there's some way I am ever going to forget. She acts like it's her personal tragedy and hers alone.

Some things seem too terrible to seem possible. Soon he may learn the worst thing he can imagine is only the beginning of what they are willing to do to him.

It's okay to want something that's going to hurt, I remind myself.

You're the sister who spits out toads and snakes. I'm the sister who spits out rubies and diamonds.

I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.

Fire wants to burn, water wants to flow, air wants to rise, earth wants to bind, chaos wants to devour.

For a moment, Cardan just stares at me with stupid, crow-black eyes. Then one corner of his mouth curls. "Oh," he says. "You're going to regret doing that." I don't think he realizes just how angry I am or how good it feels, for once, to give up on regrets.

You like it, don't you? Playing games with us? Pulling our strings and seeing how we dance?

You think because you've got that good royal blood in you, you're better than us,' says the ogre, pressing one long fingernail against the prince's shoulder. 'Maybe you are. Only way to be sure is to have a taste.' There's a drunken wobble to Oak's movements as he pushes off the ogre's hand and obvious contempt in his voice. 'The difference in flavour would be too subtle for your palate.

I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you have returned.

The scent of weakness is headier than blood.

Looking for a weird old guy who could grant wishes was pathetic. It was sad and stupid.

Of course, my queen. Whatever is mine is yours.

Even without liars, there can still be lies.