Holly Black Quotes

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army, says the minister. Now he marches with the angels.

Sam frowns at me, suddenly serious. You know, I thought--for most of the first year we lived together--that you were going to kill me.That makes me nearly spit out beer, I laugh so hard.No, look--livi...

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone. And you know that how? Sam asks. I'm trying really hard to be honest, but telling the whole thing to Sam seems beyond me....

She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.She wanted to control him.He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was eve...

She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, so covered in blood that she hadn’t remembered his features, hadn’t remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughi...

She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Ag...

She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her.

Show your power by appearing powerless.

So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate adm...

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.

Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend...

Sometimes, Sam says, I can’t tell when you’re lying. I never lie, I lie.

Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom l...

Sweet Jude, you’re my dearest punishment

That's the spirit. Aaron hid a grin. He was already wearing his armband, just above his elbow. Somehow he managed to make it look cool. Call had tied his around his forearm and was fairly sure it look...

The only way to end grief was to go through it.

There is something of yours I would like to return to you.What?He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own. Her eyes fluttered closed and her lips parted easily as she...