Holly Black Quotes

He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gon...

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

I have said that he has the power to deliver a compliment and make it hurt. So, too, he can say something that ought to be insulting and deliver it in such a way that it feels like being truly seen.

She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had,...

He stares at me in blankly. Are you accusing me of not caring for your sister? he asks.If I truly believed you didn’t care for Taryn, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.He gives a long sigh. Beca...

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

Call wasn’t sure what it meant that he’d gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn’t manage to impress him.

We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down lik...

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness

He rises from the throne. Come, have a seat. His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible.This is what you...

Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.

The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

Sprites glitter in air that stinks of freshly spilled blood. The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.

She says that what you did was a cry for help. It was, I say. That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

Things will be as they always are, he tells me. Only more so.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it’s sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

You're yourself, Tana said, grinning. More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.