Top Holly Black Quotes

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried...

Go ahead. Insult me. His eyebrows go up. I don't take commands from mortals, he says with his customary cruel smile.

Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.

I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

She took a deep breath, Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing? His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, Yes, he said finally.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home.

There you are, Cardan says as I take my place beside him. How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversation about how my head is going to find itself on a spike.

Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has.

You think I don’t deserve him, I say to Cardan.He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. Oh no, I think you’re perfect for each other.

But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline strike of lightning, like the moment when you've swum too far out in the sea an...

Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. No, she said softly, Oh no. No. Leave me, said Gavriel. .....Shut up or I might, she told him.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

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,...

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.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks,' Taryn says. 'Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.