Quotes About Confrontation
I turn and press the point of my knife directly underneath his chin. 'Jude?' he asks, up against the wall, pronouncing my name carefully, as though to avoid slurring. I am not sure I have ever heard him use my actual name before. 'Surprised?' I ask, a fierce grin starting on my face. The most important boy in Faerie and my enemy, finally in my power. It feels even better than I thought it would. 'You shouldn't be.
~ Holly Black
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He peers down at me. 'You're a liar,' he says, eyes glittering with fury. 'A dirty, mortal liar.
~ Holly Black
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His eyes narrow on the blood, and he points the wooden stick at me. 'You seem to have cut yourself.' I wonder if he's surprised that I'm alive. I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. I take the knife out from under my tunic and show it to him, stained a flinty red. I smile. 'I could cut you, too.
~ Holly Black
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Dad," Vivi says. "Stay where you are. If you try to stop her, I've got plenty more arrows, and I've been waiting half my life to put you in the ground.
~ Holly Black
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In that moment, she sprang on him and tore him to pieces.
~ Holly Black
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Nagle u?wiadamiam sobie, ?e ten kto bezustannie ?yje w strachu, komu zawsze grozi niebezpiecze?stwo, naj?atwiej to zniesie, zmierzaj?c prosto w paszcze lwa.
~ Holly Black
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You want to know what I did to make him raise me up?' I ask, leaning toward her, close enough that she can feel the warmth of my breath. 'I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.' 'Liar,' she hisses. 'If you're such good friends,' I say, repeating her own words back to her with malicious satisfaction, 'why don't you ask him?
~ Holly Black
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She knew she should run. She'd beaten him and if she stayed any longer, he would surely put a curse on her. But she didn't move.
~ Holly Black
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I will have to do something about Locke eventually, but not tonight.
~ Holly Black
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Leave,' Cardan tells Locke. 'I didn't summon her here for your pleasure.' 'You are most ungenerous. If you truly cared for me, you would have,' Locke says as he hops down from the dais. 'Take Taryn home,' I call after him. If it wasn't for her, I would punch him right in the face.
~ Holly Black
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If I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.
~ Holly Black
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Then Grima Mog is there on her stag, taking the weight of his blade. Their weapons slam together, ringing with the force of the impact. "First I am going to kill you," she tells him. "And then I am going to eat you.
~ Holly Black
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Si no puedo ser mejor que ellos, seré mucho peor.
~ Holly Black
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She's right to be worried. I just declared war
~ Holly Black
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For a moment, Cardan just stares at me with stupid, crow-black eyes. Then one corner of his mouth curls. "Oh," he says. "You're going to regret doing that." I don't think he realizes just how angry I am or how good it feels, for once, to give up on regrets.
~ Holly Black
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We're here to take Suren,' Revindra goes on. 'And we will take it ill if you attempt to prevent us.' The gaze that Oak slants towards me is as cold as the one he bestowed the ogres. 'Oh,' he says. 'I wouldn't dream of stopping you.
~ Holly Black
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She's right to be worried. I just declared war.
~ Holly Black
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I am no swordsman, but moreover, I don't like giving my enemies what they want. Madoc has come for a duel, and if for no other reason than that, he should not have one.
~ Holly Black
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We should have called truce, he'd said, brushing back his ink-black hair impatiently. We should have called truce long before this. But neither of us called it, not then, not after.
~ Holly Black
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when they are gone, it will be use staring across a chessboard at each other. And when I best you, I will make sure I do it as thoroughly as I would any opponent who has shown themselves to be my equal.
~ Holly Black
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You think I'm weak." "You are weak," I tell her. "You're weak and pathetic and I-" "I'm a mirror," she shouts. "I'm the mirror you don't want to look at.
~ Holly Black
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You want me to free him? Let's gut him like haddock. Quicker and far more satisfying.
~ Holly Black
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You went through my things?" The sudden flatness of his voice was unnerving. But Charlie rushed on, her hurt finally alchemizing into anger. "That's right. I found the license. And then I found the newspaper story about how you murdered a girl, and then yourself," she said. "You want me to feel bad about invading your privacy?" "Yes," he said, rubbing his hand over his face. "A little. I don't know.
~ Holly Black
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Will you dance with me?' I ask Cardan, sinking in to a curtsey, acid in my voice. 'For I find you every bit as beautiful as you find me.
~ Holly Black
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