Holly Black Quotes - Page 2

Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

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.

Anyone who offers their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.

Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.

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

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.

But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

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

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
....."Shut up or I might," she told him. -Tana and Gavriel-page 38-chapter 5

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?"
His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5

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.

Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do."
"We all know what you'd do,though, don't we?"-Gavriel, Tana, and Aidan-page 22-chapter 3