Holly Black Quotes - Page 8

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• Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

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  Life, Girl, World

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• 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.

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  Father, Farewell, Cutting

  Holly Black (2013). “The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories”, p.211, Small Beer Press

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• Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

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  People, Problem, Pretty Things

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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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• 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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• It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.

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  Halloween, Swimming, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.

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  Eye, People, Looks

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

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  Crutches, Curse

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

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  Memories, Giving, People

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

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  Girl, Ozone, Perfume

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

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  Like Her, Helping

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

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  Lying, Waiting, Next

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

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  Fun, Blow, Years

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Wall, Bangs, Looks

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Past, Different, Constructs

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

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  Two, Three, Said

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Who I Am, Want

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

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  Poodles, Remember, Quip

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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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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• It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

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  Monsters, Meat, Rotten

  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.

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  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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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 thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thinking. I feel like a junkie, sick for my next fix and not sure when it will come.

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  Girl, Being In Love, Dark

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• There are dog people and cat people.

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  Dog, Cat, People

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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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