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Quotes About Protection

What is that quote?" Hazel said, walking to him, too glad he'd come to object to the danger he'd put himself in. "The Lord protects fools, drunks, and dumbass ax wielders?
~ Holly Black
Like all schools, we are always interested in learning, in research, in pushing the limits of knowledge. But we must balance that with our duty to protect the world, even from ourselves.
~ Holly Black
It was readers that needed to be protected, he thought. Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.
~ Holly Black
Protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
~ Holly Black
Just because I am to protect you does not give you governance over me.
~ Holly Black
Fire can either burn down your house or warm it.
~ Holly Black
We have lived in our armour for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.
~ Holly Black
Maybe if we wrap some of those around you, then even if the blanket slips, you won't burn. We can duct-tape it together. As long as you don't mind looking ridiculous." The vampire smiled a closemouthed smile.
~ Holly Black
Vow she won't be harmed,' Oak says, breathing hard. 'Also me. I would like not to be harmed as well.
~ Holly Black
She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster.
~ Holly Black
I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at al. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten and scabrous thing. But it is yours.
~ Holly Black
I'll help you protect her," Sam says. "If you want to."... "Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her?
~ Holly Black
Do you think he will protect you now? You're useless. The heir to Elfhame has no reason to spend any further time with an untutored savage of a girl. But think, you wouldn't even have to remember him. You wouldn't even have to remember yourself." "I'm not half as practical as you suppose," Oak says. "I like many useless things. I've been called useless myself from time to time.
~ Holly Black
In that moment, I hated him for being so precious to them, for being cosseted and treated as though he was deserving of protection when I had none. Maybe I still hate him a little. But he was kind when we were children. It's possible there's a part of him that's still kind.
~ Holly Black
I spent so much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have on at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it's yours.
~ Holly Black
I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing.
~ Holly Black
Looking over at the lump of comforter and jackets and shadow where Gavriel was hiding, she took a deep breath. "I won't leave you," she told Aidan. "I promise." No one else was going to get killed today, not if she could save them. Certainly not someone she'd once thought she loved, even if he was a jerk. Not some dead boy full of good advice. And she hoped not herself, either.
~ Holly Black
Oh, you mean instead of grabbing you?" Ben flinched as though he'd been slapped.
~ Holly Black
Winter made sure he got in before his sister, positioning himself in the middle like some kind of chaperone—as if, when the infection kicked back into high gear, Aidan was going to care whom he attacked. Not to mention that Aidan liked boys just fine anyway.
~ Holly Black
When he lay down in a pile of rushes and closed his eyes, I crept up to him and carefully covered him in dry leaves so that he would be warm.
~ Holly Black
I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten and scabrous thing. But it is yours.
~ Holly Black
He reaches toward me, as though he's going to run his fingers over the bruises. I bring up the crossbow, and he thinks better of it.
~ Holly Black
He picked up her purse from where it rested beside her and shook it gently. "In case you were concerned. All just as you left it." She nodded. "Thanks. Although I guess whether I'll ever get to use that marker is pretty up in the air right now." "You should have let me eat her in that parking lot," Gavriel said, raising his eyebrows.
~ Holly Black
I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours." - Cardan
~ Holly Black