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Quotes About Mystery

What does that mean?" The Thistlewitch smiled. "Time will tell. It always does.
~ Holly Black
Nothing he says is a lie, but all his words are riddles.
~ Holly Black
The ferns are silvery in the moonlight, the woods full of shifting shadows.
~ Holly Black
At seventeen, he has grown tall, towering over me, lithe and finely muscled. His hair catches the moonlight, warm gold threaded with platinum, bangs parting around small goat horns, eyes of shocking amber, and a constellation of freckles across his nose. He has a trickster's mouth and the swagger of someone used to people doing what he wanted.
~ Holly Black
My lady, the tiger
~ Holly Black
Midnight rolled her eyes, as though Aidan was being ridiculous. "I bet you were a good girl back home," she said to Tana. "A good girl all your life until you finally met the trouble you want to get in." "You obviously don't know her at all," Aidan told Midnight gruffly. Then he turned back to Tana. "Did he bite you?
~ Holly Black
I have secrets aplenty. There are so many things you don't know, daughter of Madoc. And I think you crave a little violence yourself.
~ Holly Black
Cardan stands over me. His jacket is thrown on a nearby chair, the velvet soaked through with some dark substance. His white sleeves are rolled up, and he's washing my hands with a wet cloth. Getting the blood off them. I try to speak, but my mouth feels like it is full of honey. I slide back into the syrupy dark.
~ Holly Black
Oh, tell me the rest. I like tricks and snares. Even ones I was nearly caught in.
~ Holly Black
It had a pale body and crept on all fours, with claws as long as one of her fingers.
~ Holly Black
She was unprepared for how much the way into Coldtown looked like a shoddily run DMV.
~ Holly Black
They say that he can talk flowers into opening their petals at night, as though his face were that of the sun. He'll steal your heart.
~ Holly Black
Jamás, al igual que para siempre, es un término tan grande que escapa a la comprensión de los mortales.
~ Holly Black
He took out another black cigarette from his silver case, fitted it into his cigarette holder, and lit it.
~ Holly Black
Everyone wants magic. It's not just me.
~ Holly Black
She had arrived in a gown of black silk beneath a cage of fish bones and shells, her deep aquamarine hair caught up in a crown of coral.
~ Holly Black
You could take the job," Balthazar said. "You want to quit the game for good? Go out in style. Come on, Charlatan, you could steal breath from a body, hate from a heart, the moon from the sky." "Flattery is so unlike you.
~ Holly Black
Her skin is the bluish color of skim milk
~ Holly Black
Let me tell you something about unicorns—they're faeries and faeries aren't to be trusted.
~ Holly Black
It takes us a long time to wend our way back down the stairs. My hands are in his hair. His mouth is on my neck. My back is against the ancient stone wall. Everything is slow and perfect and makes no sense at all. This can't be my life. This feels nothing like my life.
~ Holly Black
in the mortal world, there are such things as backyards. Here, there are forest and sea, rocks and mazes, flowers that are red only when they get fresh blood.
~ Holly Black
the dress clings to my chest and waist, skirt flaring over my hips. The tattered edges give it a haunting elegance, as though I am wrapped in the shadows of dusk. I look the picture of mysterious courtier, rather than someone who sleeps in dirt.
~ Holly Black
Ah! A lady of mystery. My very favorite kind
~ Holly Black
We walk, fading stars overhead, brine in the air.
~ Holly Black