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Quotes About Relationships

Call stroked his head. Alex laughed. "Stupid animal." Tamara bristled. "Don't talk about Havoc that way." "Who says I was talking about Havoc?
~ Holly Black
Jude never loved Locke." My face feels hot, but my shame is an excellent cover to hide behind. "She loved
~ Holly Black
We sat together on the couch, watching the cartoon skater fail to land jumps and fall in helpless, and probably unrequited love, with his coach. (They're watching Yuri on Ice!!)
~ Holly Black
And that is why you ought not dramatically vow to obey someone,' I say, a growl in my voice. 'They seldom ask for what you hope they will.
~ Holly Black
I hate seeing him with Nicasia. I hate the thought of his touching her. I hate that this is my plan, that I have no one to be angry with but myself. I am an idiot. Page 173
~ Holly Black
Well, wife,' he says to me, a chill in his voice. 'It seems you have kept at least one secret from your dowry.
~ Holly Black
Oh, God, Call thought. Tamara's father. And he'd just kissed Tamara. Was that why Mr. Rajavi was here? Don't be totally ridiculous, said Aaron. Do you think he's psychic or something? Kimiya was grounded for making out with Evil Overlord Alex — Tamara had said so. Mr. Rajavi had a well-established policy of not liking his children making out with Evil Overlords.
~ Holly Black
You hate the Folk." Taryn's eyes flash as she spins her sword in an elegant strike. "You never cared about Locke. He was just another thing to take from Cardan.
~ Holly Black
I think he thinks about girlfriend like some kind of honorary title, like the way that every president is still 'President So and So,' no matter who's currently in office.
~ Holly Black
By you, I am forever undone." ? The Queen of Nothing
~ Holly Black
We don't need her!' Oak shouts, the first time I have really seen his emotions out of his control. 'And I don't want her.' The words hurt, the more because he cannot lie.
~ Holly Black
You could totally like Tamara -" - Jasper "What does it matter?" Call exploded... "Don't you get it? It doesn't matter. She'll always like Aaron better." Jasper's eyes widened. "Whoa," he said. "Looks like I hit on an awkward truth here.
~ Holly Black
No one in chains could ever truly love you.' He glares. 'Do you expect me to believe you know anything about love?' The truth of that hits like a blow.
~ Holly Black
Oh, yeah?" Chris says. "Maybe you should tell your friends that you're an emotion worker instead of hiding it. Do you think they'll listen to you then?" ... "How could you do this to me?" - Daneca "It's not my fault you're a liar." - Chris
~ Holly Black
You're not like other girls," Aidan said, pressing her back against the cushions of the couch. "You're cool." Tana tried to be cool, tried to act as if it didn't bother her when he flirted with anything that moved—and, that one time, when he was really drunk, with a coatrack.
~ Holly Black
Or you could try not talking to her," Call said. "When I don't talk to Tamara, she comes and hits me, so that would be a way that Kimiya might come to you first. Plus, once she hits you, it breaks the ice." "Or my shoulder," said Alex. "I mean, if it doesn't work, then, like they say, 'If you love someone, set them free. Don't lock them up underground in a cavern.
~ Holly Black
Are you enjoying yourself?" I overhear Nicasia ask Locke once, as he joins them for a lecture. "Cardan won't forgive you for what you're doing with her.
~ Holly Black
Me do not live as you do. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent to far.
~ Holly Black
She loved him so much that it already hurt. It already felt like he'd broken her heart.
~ Holly Black
She smiled too. 'Have you ever had a boyfriend this bad?' Her words hung in the air a moment. It was the first time any of them had ventured a guess. 'Worse,' he said, 'and girlfriends too. I have terrible taste.' Mary sat down next to him on the bench. 'Girlfriends too?' He nodded and lifted a glass of iced tea to his mouth. 'When you don't know what you're searching for,' he said, 'you have to look absolutely everywhere.
~ Holly Black
Cardan lies on the rug with one arm propping up his head and the other slung across Jude's waist. He understands everything and nothing he sees on the screen- just as he understands everything and nothing about being here with her family. He feels like a feral cat that might bite out of habit.
~ Holly Black
I do have a bad habit," he says. "of falling in love. With regularity and to spectacular effect. You see, it never goes well.
~ Holly Black
I think of all the good things that come from someone knowing you well enough to understand your hopes and fears.
~ Holly Black
He was nice in the carriage. I didn't know he knew how to be nice.' That makes me laugh. At the door to my chambers, she puts her hand on my arm. 'He was trying to impress you, you know. Talking to me.' I frown. 'I think he just wanted to hear about weird candy.' She shakes her head. 'He wants you to like him. But just because he wants you to doesn't mean you should.
~ Holly Black