Holly Black Quotes - Page 5

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• Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.

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  Love, Hurt, Thinking

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Passion, Eye, Hands

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• One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

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  Night, Giving, Ask Me

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

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  Flattery, Roof

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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 would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.

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  Hair, Gone, Leather

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

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  Powerful, Eye, Black

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

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  School, Home, House

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• We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

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  Liars, Thinking, Trying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

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  Giving Up, Real, Father

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

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  Yelling, Helping, Cry

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

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  Dog, Thinking, People

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Gone, Hey

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

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  Liars, Lying, Believe

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

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  Heart, Hands, Long

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• 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?

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  Skills, Yesterday, Showing Up

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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

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  People, Corny, Killing

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Memories, Climbing, Dying

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

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  Regret, Night, Trouble

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If I was, I would make you beg to blow me," I sneer.

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  Mother, Blow, Trials

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

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  Stars, Sky, People

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• 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.

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  Arms, Matter, Remember

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

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  Claws, Ifs

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

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  Brother, Bored, Sitting

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Long, Rose

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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