Holly Black Quotes - Page 9

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• I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.

  Holly Black

  Passion, Eye, Hands

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• I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

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  Cat, Kissing, Airports

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• I like all the things that make you monstrous.

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  Monstrous

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real.

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  Real, Eye, Kissing

  Holly Black (2006). “Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

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  Sorry, Selfish, Upset

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily. His skin felt hot, even through the cloth of her shirt, his touch was both soothing and electric. She leaned into him without thinking. His thighs parted, rough black cloth scratching against her jeans as she moved between his long legs. His eyes half-lidded as he pushed himself off the desk, their bodies sliding together, his hands still holding hers. Then, suddenly, he froze.

  Holly Black

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• There are dog people and cat people.

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  Dog, Cat, People

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• Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.

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  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

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• There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

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  Party, Gunshots

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

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  Dark, Mirrors, Hair

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

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  Hurt, Betrayal, Wonder

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• Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.

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  Fall, Angel, Thinking

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

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  Cat, House, Leopards

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't lie," I lied.

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  Lying, Lied, Don't Lie

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• It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

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  Ideas, Particular, Knows

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.

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  People, Protect

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Pain, Agents, Fists

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Spring, Cat, Animal

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.

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  Fighting, Boys, Night

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• Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

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  Baby, Strong, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly unaware she would not live past dawn. He wondered what she would say in the face of that.

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  Past, Sight, Dawn

  Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.

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  Kings, Fall, Eye

  Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.

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  Sweet, Love You, Kissing

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• You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

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  Drunk, Trying, Looks

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka. "To Zacharov!" one toasts. "To open hearts and open bars!" calls another. "And open legs," says Anton.

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  Heart, People, Guy

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