Holly Black: Quotes about love

Holly Black is American children's fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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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

“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”

Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest

Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest

“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

“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

“I love you, you see… and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted……. Or not obviously”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“whatever you love, that is your weakness”

Holly Black

Source: Ironside

“The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.”

Holly Black

Source: Ironside

“. 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

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

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“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.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”

Holly Black

Source: Ironside