Quotes from Holly Black

Le odio más que a los demás, le odio tanto, que a veces, cuando le miro, me cuesta respirar.

So long as I don't die from it, I'll be harder to kill.

Let's start with a love story. Or maybe it's another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.

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?

Siempre hay algo que perder

All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don't trust people who want to share their food with you; don't eat their shiny red apples, nor their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don't break a promise. Be bold, be bold, but not too bold.

Get up," the knight says. Dulcamara. Her face shows no recognition of me, however. I stand, and she marches me into the tent, kicking me in the legs once we get there so I topple onto the rugs. I have cause to be thankful for their plushness. For a moment, I let myself lie there. She presses her boot against the small of my back as though I am some felled prey. "I caught a spy," she announces. "Shall I snap its neck?

You may command the sky,' the horned man in the golden scale mail returns. 'But alas, we are here on the ground.

Rendirse no es motivo de vergüenza.

Cardan, I hope your brother won't be angry. I'm afraid I may have set one of the guests on fire.

I don't have a lot of experience with kisses. There was Locke, and before him, no one. But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline strike of lightning, like the moment when you've swum too far out in the sea and there is no going back, only cold black water closing over your head.

Coffee", the Roach says. "Black as the eyes of the High King of Elfhame.

Everything was boring. Everything was fine.

Nuestras vidas son la única posesión auténtica que tenemos, son nuestra única moneda de cambio. Tenemos derecho a comprar lo que queramos con ellas.

How does it feel?' he asked. 'To be stuck in a fairy tale?' 'How does it feel to be one?' I countered...

Prince Cardan will be your last born child," the Royal Astrologer said. "He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

what's so great about lying is the not knowing.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place," she reads. "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Espera —dice, acercándose un paso—. Quiero volver a verte. —¿Por qué? —Porque eres como una historia que aún no ha sucedido. Porque quiero comprobar qué haras. Quiero participar en el desarollo de la narración.

Surely the idea of a few more months tied to me can't be such a hardship that you'd like to tie yourself to me for years.

I like stories,' he said. 'And perhaps I like you as well.

All I have bought myself is worse problems, no matter how good it felt to salve my pride.

I wouldn't play the game if I couldn't win.

I am not yet in pain. But I do not doubt that I will be.