Holly Black Quotes

No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?Everything.

Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call’s eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring...

I stand in front of my window and imagine myself a fearless knight, imagine myself a witch who hid her heart in her finger and then chopped her finger off.

It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?Why bother with that? Let's find incubi.Incubi? Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them--her voice...

It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.

It was so strange to be touched so gently by a creature like him- a creature who looked just like the kind of boy who you might let touch your thigh for a totally different reason.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

For a moment, he says, I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me. I make a face at him. And what made you decide it wasn’t? He grins up at me. They missed.

And elsewhere in the woods, there is another party, one taking place inside a hollow hill, full of night-blooming flowers. There, a pale boy plays a fiddle with newly mended fingers while his sister d...

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually sawing a girl in half. You think he’s doing one trick when he...

Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It’ll cost you everything.

The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case....

The Lady or The Tiger,'...'My lady, the tiger,

Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother.

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our...