Holly Black Quote

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Everything started as nothing.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If that is your goal, then you want to make sure that your information is accu...

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...