Holly Black Quotes page 2

“It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.”

Source: Black Heart

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”

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

“I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

Source: Red Glove

“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: Red Glove

“I don't lie," I lied.”

“I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.”

Source: White Cat

“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”

Source: White Cat

“She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.”

Source: Ironside

“If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.”

Source: Ironside

“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, she is made of smoke.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.”

Source: Red Glove

“Don't be drinking the Haterade.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“To remind me, pain is the best teacher”

Source: White Cat

“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends.”

Source: White Cat

“You both… you both saved me?"

"Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.”

Source: Valiant

“So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone…. there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.”

Source: Valiant

“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt.

"I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage."

Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.”

Source: Red Glove

“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”

Source: Red Glove

“Some promises aren’t worth keeping.”

Source: Red Glove

“But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.

Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.”

Source: Black Heart

“Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“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 guess, she was framed. She's innocent.”

Source: Black Heart

“Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”

Source: White Cat

“One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.”

Red Glove

“I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.”

Source: Valiant

“I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.”

Source: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories

“Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.”

Source: Red Glove

“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, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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

Source: Red Glove

“Every plan is a house of cards.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Being
infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you
always were, deep down inside.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Ruthless. That’s my girl.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“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.”

Source: Black Heart

“I like all the things that make you monstrous.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be”

Source: Valiant

“One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”

Source: White Cat

“She wants me to take out Patton.”

Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?”

“No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either.”

Source: Black Heart

“It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.”

Source: Ironside

“Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.”

Source: Red Glove

“We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.”

Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is. I can only fix my little piece of it”

Source: Black Heart

“I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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Source: Doll Bones

“If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.”

“Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her."

"If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.”

Source: Valiant

“Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.”

Source: White Cat