100+ Holly Black Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black (2009). “The Completely Fantastical Edition: The Field Guide; The Seeing Stone; Lucinda's Secret; The Ironwood Tree; The Wrath of Mulgarath”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Book, Knows

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Hurt, Voice, Break

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Love Is, Language Of Love, Warning, Possessive

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

source: - Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Growing Up, Lying, Stories

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Hurt, Skins, Peeling, Sharing Secrets

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

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Beautiful, Flaws, Crippled

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.133, Hachette UK

Topics: Thieves, Kind, Stolen

She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Couple, Thinking, Together

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

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

Topics: Falling In Love, Sky, Burning, Comets

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Party, Tea, Dolls

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

Topics: Sarcastic, Might, Wells

I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Girlfriend, Holiday, Winter, Moodiness, Audrey

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

source: - Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Hurt, Thinking, Want

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Teacher, Pain, Best Teacher

Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You are a tiny tiny killing machine." Daneca coos. "What's she doing?" I ask. "Purring!" says Daneca. She sounds delighted. "Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, you are.

Topics: Badass, Cat, Pet, Purring

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

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

Topics: People, Protect

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Touching, Despair, Desire

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.

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

Topics: Ideas, Particular, Knows

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.

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

Topics: Pain, Agents, Fists

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Voice, Warning

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.

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

Topics: Spring, Cat, Animal, Prison Break, Animal Shelter

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.

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

Topics: Dog, Thinking, People, Stray Dogs, Helping People

Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

Topics: College, Not Sure, Application

But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there." We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't." what are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" Pretty much.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Heart, Court, Faerie

If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.

Topics: Cat, Past, Trying, Fridges, Just A Thought

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.

Topics: Fighting, Boys, Night, Fine Day

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Drinking

You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.

source: - Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Sight, Blood, Hands

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

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Grief, Kind, Villain

Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Coffee, Panty Hose, Bags, Plastic Bags

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Giving, Choices, Magic

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.

Topics: Stars, Sky, People

I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh, no." I take a sip of coffee and wince. It was ridiculously strong. My grandfather shoves a strip of bacon in his mouth with a grin. "Guess it would have been kind of weird if we'd had the same dream." I roll my eyes. "Well, you'd better not tell me anything else. Don't ruin the surprise in case I have it tonight.

Topics: Dream, Strong, Coffee, Weird Dream, Wince

It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Sweet, Trouble, Kitties

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Thinking, Way, Wonder

You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Sorry, Laughing, Car

On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. “How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. “I thought I grew out of it.” Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to unlock his Mercedes. I slide into the passenger side, brushing coffee cups off the seat and onto the floor mat, where crumpled printouts from MapQuest soak up any spilled liquid. “I hope you mean sleepwalking,” Philip says, “since you obviously didn’t grow out of stupid.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Stupid, Coffee, Mean, Sleepwalking

Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Enemy, Looks, Let Me

You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Daughter, Father, Want

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

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

Topics: Regret, Night, Trouble

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Pants, Roof, Wanted

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.

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

Topics: Arms, Matter, Remember

Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not true," he says. "Well, he *seemed* more paranoid to me," I say. "And he still gets a little weired out when any one mentions angels.

Topics: Weed, Fall, Reading, Locked Doors

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

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

Topics: Claws, Ifs

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.

Topics: Brother, Bored, Sitting, Sitting Alone

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.

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

Topics: Cutting, Long, Rose

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

source: - "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown". Book by Holly Black, 2013.

Topics: Dangerous, Daybreak

It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a jar of instant grounds. "Don't," I warn him. He scoops up a heaping spoonful and, heedlessly, shovels it into his mouth. It crunches horribly. Then his eyes go wide. "Dry," he croaks. "Tongue...shriveling." I shake my head, picking up the jar. "It's dehydrated. You're supposed to add water. Good thing you're mostly made of water." He tries to say something. Brown powder dusts his shirt. "Also," I tell him, "that's decaf.

Topics: Coffee, Eye, Dust, Shovels

It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Teaching, Mean, Play

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.

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

Topics: Eye, People, Looks

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

Topics: Games, Lost, Ifs

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

source: - Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.217, Hachette UK

Topics: Girl, Cry, Scream

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.

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

Topics: Girl, Being In Love, Dark, Rational Thinking, Bargains

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.

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

Topics: Yelling, Helping, Cry

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

Topics: House, Plot, Graveyard

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

Topics: Cat, Voice, Delight, Keyholes

They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

source: - Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.180, Hachette UK

Topics: Mistake, Thinking, Kind, Blinded

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.

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

Topics: Love, Hurt, Thinking

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

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

Topics: Flattery, Roof

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.

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

Topics: Liars, Lying, Believe

We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Hachette UK

Topics: Girl, Senior, Teacher, Douchebags, Freaking Out

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.

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

Topics: Memories, Climbing, Dying

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Hurt, People, Care, Trust Myself

I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

Topics: Book, Writing, Thinking

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.

source: - Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.1, Hachette UK

Topics: Vampire, Littles, Ought

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?

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

Topics: Skills, Yesterday, Showing Up, Poor Planning

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.

Topics: School, Home, House, Slick

No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court." "Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Night, Yes You Can, Lord, Night Court

This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.

Topics: Guy, Zombie, Brain

Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.

Topics: Moon, Blood, Water, Slits

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.

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

Topics: Hair, Gone, Leather, Short Hair

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.

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

Topics: Powerful, Eye, Black, Black Eyes

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.

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

Topics: Crazy, Gone, Hey, Gone Crazy

My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.

source: - Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Wish, Aspirin, Mint

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

Topics: Usual, Different, Looks

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

Topics: Girl, Stupid, Home, Con Artist

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Tragedy, Might, Firsts

A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Heart, Men, Islands

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

Topics: Book, Holy Grail, Firsts

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

source: - Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.176, Hachette UK

Topics: End Of The World, Ends, Jokes

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

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

Topics: Night, Giving, Ask Me, Air Force One

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.

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

Topics: Giving Up, Real, Father

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

source: - Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Criminals, Honest

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

Topics: People, Problem, Pretty Things

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Topics: Beloved, Dies

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

source: - Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.4, Hachette UK

Topics: Looks, Keep Going

Death’s favorites don’t die.

Topics: Dies

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