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Quotes About Conflict

Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us
~ Holly Black
I look to see that it's the worst person possible: Cardan.
~ Holly Black
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
Sobre todo te odio porque pienso en ti. A menudo. Es repulsivo, pero no puedo evitarlo.
~ Holly Black
Maybe living together is the reason we don't get on.' 'I don't like you, either,' I remind him.
~ Holly Black
Jude, you keep smiling a pleasant smile in front of Madoc, but all I can see anymore is bared teeth.
~ Holly Black
I pictured Locke's heart shot through with an arrow and then shook my head to get rid of the image. It wasn't like me to think things like that. It especially wasn't like me to have a brief jolt of satisfaction from it.
~ Holly Black
There it is. That temper you try to hide. You know what fascinates me about you? You're a hungry person sitting in front of a banquet, refusing to eat.
~ Holly Black
I was never going to be happy with you," Mom told him. "Your world isn't for people like me." The tall man regarded her for a long moment. "You made vows," he said finally. She lifted her chin. "And then I renounced them.
~ Holly Black
I will have to do something about Locke eventually, but not tonight.
~ Holly Black
No," Vivi told him in her somber little voice. "I'm never going anywhere with you." "I'm your father," he told her, his voice harsh, rising like the crack of a lash. "You are my heir and my blood, and you will obey me in this as in all things.
~ Holly Black
I hate the way I cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.
~ Holly Black
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
Mother Marrow gestures to the soup, and I, who can afford no more enemies, bring it to my lips. It tastes of a memory I cannot quite place, warm afternoons and splashing in pools and kicking plastic toys across the brown grass of summer lawns. Tears spring to my eyes. I want to spill it out in to the dirt. I want to drink it down to the dregs.
~ Holly Black
if you're the sickness, i suppose you can't also be the cure
~ Holly Black
He leans in and closes his eyes. "Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop." I am shocked into silence. "Maybe you should shoot me after all," he says, covering his face with one long-fingered hand.
~ Holly Black
When I'm scared, I can't forget that no matter how well he plays the role of father, he will always and forever also be my father's murderer.
~ Holly Black
The last time you were here, we were poor hosts. But there are many delights we could show you.' 'Including a war,' puts in Grima Mog. 'What could be more delightful than that?
~ Holly Black
Grima Mog whirls away, battling three knights from the Court of Teeth. She must have known them once, must have commanded them, but she fights them just the same.
~ Holly Black
A sword is a weapon of war, a dagger is a weapon of murder.
~ Holly Black
She's right to be worried. I just declared war
~ Holly Black
I'm still your father.'' ''You're my father's murderer,'' I blurt out. ''I can be both,'' Madoc says, smiling, showing those teeth.
~ Holly Black
Tiernan pulls a leg off the rat and chews on it delicately, while Oak helps himself to a slice of melon. I eat one of the doughnuts. "I see you there, you unnatural creature," the Thistlewitch informs me. I narrow my eyes at her. She's probably angry I took a doughnut.
~ Holly Black
Now, Queen of the Undersea, we will have a truce as you had with Eldred, as you had with Mab. We will have a truce or we will have a war and if we fight, I will be unsparing. Nothing and no one you love will be safe.
~ Holly Black