Quotes from Holly Black

And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over the blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid. Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise. Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice shard through my heart.

I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else

Jusqu'à ce que chacun de nous renonce à l'autre

By? raz sobie ch?opiec o pod?ym sercu - zacz??a. - Nie to nie tak by?o - przerwa? jej Cardan. - Inaczej zaczyna?a si? ta ba??. Przecie? mia? k??liwy j?zyk. - Ch?opcy si? zmieniaj?. - powiedzia?a. - Ba?nie te?.

I taught myself to call them unmother and unfather. I keep the habit to remind myself of what they were to me, and what they will never be again. Remind myself that there is nowhere that I belong and no one to whom I belong.

The Bomb gives me a quick grin.

They were lying on a bed of soft moss at the edge of The Crooked Forest. He could hear waves crashing along the shore. She was sprawled out in a robe of silver, her hair spread beneath her like a tide pool.

So here are the wages for your service,' I say with a pointed look around the cave. 'I hope betrayal was its own reward.

Widzisz, ?adna cz??? tej ba?ni nie by?a k?amstwem, cho? historia by?a zupe?nie nieprawdziwa.

He looked away, his gaze going toward the dais, and Kaye realised he was looking at the girl. The mortal girl. "What I want," he said, "is for Dain never to get the throne. Failing that, I'd love to see the whole Court of Termites walk out of here without your king's pledging anything. But then it is my nature to only want things I cannot have.

The last room Cardan occupied caught fire,' I call back to the Bomb. 'Let me rephrase. It caught fire because he lit it on fire.

Kill him, a part of me says, a part I remember from the night I took him captive. Kill him before he makes you love him.

I will make him proud of me. Everyone else, I will make very, very sorry.

But when you were gone-truly gone beneath the waves-I hated myself as I never have before.

He cuts his gaze toward his unpredictable, mortal High Queen, whose wild brown hair is blowing around her face, whose amber eyes are alight when she looks at him. They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever.

Her hair falls loose in a cascade of black curls, caught in a crown of magenta bougainvillea.

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

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 heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy." He looks at me. "Is that right? It would explain much about your kind if it's possible to mistake the two.

The Lord protects fools, drunks and dumb-ass ax wielders?

When will you cease being a dissapointment?

Lucy- "Wow, no one ever fights over me." Justin- "My multiple personalities fight over you constantly. There is a war going on inside me." Rue- "This is for the war going on outside.

Before I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.

Orlagh waits for us in a choppy ocean, accompanied by her daughter and a pod of knights mounted on seals and sharks and all manner of sharp-toothed sea creatures. She herself sit on an orca and is dressed as though ready for battle. Her skin is covered in shiny silvery scales that seem both to be metallic and to have grown from her skin. A helmet of bone and teeth hides her hair. Nicasia is beside her, on a shark. She has no tail today, her long legs covered in armour of shell.

We're not mortal. We will break you. You're a fragile little thing; we'd hardly need to try. Give up." "Never," I say. He smiles, smug. "Never? Never is like forever - too big for mortals to comprehend.