Holly Black Quotes

His mouth curls into a smile. His eyes shine with wicked intent. Look at them all, your subjects. A shame not a one knows who their true ruler is.

I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blac...

I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I'm sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I'm ridiculous. I get that you think I'...

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I...

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.

If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handl...

It’s disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.

It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for how drunk Ellen was--see if she would swallow a butt whole

Kill him before he makes you love him.

Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.

Little did Prince Dain know that my real skill lies in pissing people off.

Maybe, Hazel decided, maybe they could both learn how. Not just making-up-stories-in-which-you're-happy happiness, but the real thing. She leaned across the bed and hugged him with all the strength in...

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

Our promises don’t matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.

People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void.