Holly Black citations

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“It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.”

“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.”

“You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.”

“I don’t know,” Call said. He was starting to worry that there weren’t any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists.”

“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

“He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.”

“Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.”

“Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying”

“Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.”

“Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be?

Seriously, what else could go wrong?”

“The Lady or The Tiger,'
…
'My lady, the tiger”

“Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.”

“It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.”

“Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?"
Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.”

“Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?”

“I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.”

“I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.”

“It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.”

“My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.”

“You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to.”

“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”

“Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.”

“Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.”

“As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach.
KILL THE CHILD”

“I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.”

“Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.”

“I never lie,” I lie.”

“It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.

Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.”

“I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.”

“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.”