Holly Black: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Death’s favorites don’t die.”

“If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”

“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.”

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