Holly Black: Likeness

Holly Black is American children's fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”

Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest

Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest

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

Holly Black

Source: Ironside

“Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”

Holly Black

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.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

“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.”

Holly Black

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.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

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

Holly Black book Red Glove

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.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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

Holly Black

Source: Valiant

“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.”

Holly Black

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.”

Holly Black

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

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

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

“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.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat