Quotes from Holly Black

every night for seven months and seven days, he must bring her a cube of fresh human flesh. He may cut it from himself or from another, whichever he prefers.

warm, buttery sunlight flows into the room like yolk from a cracked egg...

He reaches up and presses my hand to his face. 'It's funny, isn't it, how I mocked you for your mortality when you're certain to outlive me.' 'You're not going to die,' I insist. 'Oh, how many times have I wished that you couldn't lie? Never more than now.

Quiero que mi nombre desaparezca de sus labios.

My sister thinks that she's the only one who can take poison, but I am poison,' he whispers, eyes half-closed, talking to himself. 'Poison in my blood. I poison everything I touch.' That's such a strange thing to hear him say. Everyone adores him. And yet, I recall him running away at thirteen, sure so many things were his fault.

What has changed? Is he different because I have forced him to be? Is it because he is away from Balekin? Or is he no different at all and I am only seeing what I want to see?

If I can't find a good enough story I make one.

It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.

Then the glaistig tells the freckled man to gather leaves. For each one in his pile, he'll get a crisp twenty-dollar billl in its place. He'll have three days to spend the money before it disappears.

Glad you're up to mocking.' 'I hope it's the last thing about me to go.

I'm still your father.'' ''You're my father's murderer,'' I blurt out. ''I can be both,'' Madoc says, smiling, showing those teeth.

Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin's care. He has been raised up in it, instructed in its nuances, honed through its application. However horrible Cardan might be, I now see what he might become and am truly afraid.

I recall that you your hands were on her, but her eyes were on me,'' Cardan returns

For a moment,'' he says, ''I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me.'' I make a face at him. ''And what made you decide it wasn't? He grins up at me. ''They missed.

Then the glaistig tells the freckled man to gather leaves. For each one in his pile, he'll get a crisp twenty-dollar bill in its place. He'll have three days to spend the money before it disappears.

I am no Court lady with lips of carmine and butterflies in my hair. I am scrawny, like a stick bug.

We're here to take Suren,' Revindra goes on. 'And we will take it ill if you attempt to prevent us.' The gaze that Oak slants towards me is as cold as the one he bestowed the ogres. 'Oh,' he says. 'I wouldn't dream of stopping you.

But when I think of the night he was shot at, the night he did coin tricks, I cant help recalling him gazing up from my bed, intoxicated and disturbingly intoxicating. Page 157

The whole places looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing, never the cause of pain.

Quiero que mi nombre desaparezca de tus labios.

He is wearing his golden armour again, the boy who'd been my friend disappearing into a man I don't know.

In the mornings, her roommates Ruth and Val (if she's not staying with her boyfriend) and Corny (who sleeps in their walk-in closet, although he calls it 'the second bedroom') step over them.

Tiernan pulls a leg off the rat and chews on it delicately, while Oak helps himself to a slice of melon. I eat one of the doughnuts. "I see you there, you unnatural creature," the Thistlewitch informs me. I narrow my eyes at her. She's probably angry I took a doughnut.

kiss me until i'm sick of it