Quotes by Holly Black

I used to wish that Madoc never went looking for those girls, and now all I wish is that we could be together again as we once were.

But for one night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have for better or worse become what I am.

I guess it’s true, no one will ever love you like your family.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it’s like hope.

It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.

I ran anyway. And clutched his fingers as though he could drag me into a world where other kinds of games were possible. Hope lit my heart.

I remember his definition of magic vividly: “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with will.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness

Okay," I say, "I'll do it. I'll marry you." He gives me wicked grin. "I had no idea it would be such a sacrifice.

Okay," I say. "I'll do it. I'll marry you." He gives a wicked grin. "I had no idea it would be such a sacrifice.

Some of my best ideas come in the moment. And I did get a bath.

Felicitations on the murder of your mother.

Killing is my thing,' he tells her. 'You should get your own thing.

You should probably stop staring at her like you never saw a naked girl with wings before.

Vow she won't be harmed,' Oak says, breathing hard. 'Also me. I would like not to be harmed as well.

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

It has become such an automatic reaction to pain, for him to mask it with a grin. Oak, laughing all the time. Pretending nothing hurts. A false face hiding a false heart.

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

It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But t

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.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I missed you," I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. "In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you.""My sweet nemesis, how glad I

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.

Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.“No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”"I can't.

By you, I am forever undone.

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world