Holly Black citations

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“Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.”

“Can't get away from your own self.”

“Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.”

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

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

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Don't be drinking the Haterade.”

“To remind me, pain is the best teacher”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”

“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.”

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

“Some promises aren’t worth keeping.”

“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.”

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

“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.”