Holly Black Quotes

I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven’t been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I’ve been fighting my own shadow.

So you'll teach me? Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. I will make you as terrible as you desire.I don't want to be - , she started, but he held up his hand.I know you're very brave, he said.Or stupid. stup...

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. See, I even brought some things to read aloud....

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love vampire folklore; my eighth grade research paper was on [it]. [With this project,] it wa...

The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, sh...

You put a curse on that girl over there, I tell him. Fix her .She admired my ears, the boy says. I was only giving her what she desired. A party favor.That’s what I am going to say after I gut you and...

Feels almost like real agent work, doesn’t it? Barron says as we walk down the street, heads bowed against the wind. You know, if we caught your girlfriend committing a crime, I bet Yulikova would giv...

Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wo...

Whatever you love, that is your weakness

She wanted him to feel like she did, like he'd done something forbidden, wanted to give him something he'd like and really wasn't supposed to have, something that would feel wrong, something he wanted...

I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break. It does the trick. He laughs. Whose cat? My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers? Let me g...

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not back...

Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase.I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk.They're for you.You want me to look homeless, desper...

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

I want to have some reaction. I want to tremble or feel nauseated. I want to be the person who begins to weep. I want to be anyone but the person I am, who looks around to be sure no one saw, who wipe...

I don’t know, Call said. He was starting to worry that there weren’t any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.