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“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”

Holly Black

“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”

Holly Black

Source: Tithe

“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

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

Holly Black

Source: Tithe

“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.”

Holly Black

Source: Ironside

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”

Holly Black

Source: Tithe

“Every hero is the villain of his own story.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“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.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“Death’s favorites don’t die.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”

Holly Black

Source: Ironside