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Quotes About Relationships

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.
~ Holly Black
I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.
~ Holly Black
We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.
~ Holly Black
She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.
~ Holly Black
The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
~ Holly Black
No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court." "Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
~ Holly Black
That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them.
~ Holly Black
Mine . The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.
~ Holly Black
I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
~ Holly Black
I survive at the edge of friends circles.
~ Holly Black
She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. When a man tells you he's going to hurt you, believe it. They always warn you and they're always right.
~ Holly Black
Love changes us, but we change how we love too.
~ Holly Black
You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.
~ Holly Black
I remember what it was to hate him with the whole of my heart, but I've remembered too late.
~ Holly Black
Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts.
~ Holly Black
I can't believe he said that and then just walked out, leaving me reeling. I am going to STRANGLE him.
~ Holly Black
If you want my advice," he says slowly, "love doesn't grow well, fed on pain. Grant me that I know that at least.
~ Holly Black
He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It's easy to think you're succeeding when you're failing spectacularly.
~ Holly Black
I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
~ Holly Black
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.
~ Holly Black
She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.
~ Holly Black
I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.
~ Holly Black
If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
~ Holly Black
Jude, You are in no mood for games. Very well. I am in no mood for them, either. Let me write it outright: you are pardoned. I revoke your banishment. I rescind my words. Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home. Cardan
~ Holly Black