Holly Black Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”
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“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
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“She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”
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“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
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“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
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“You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.”
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“She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.”
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“I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously”
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“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
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“You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.”
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“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
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“Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles.”
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“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
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“I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.”
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“They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.”
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“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”
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“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.”
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“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”
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“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”
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“I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse”
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“If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?”
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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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“Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.”
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“Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.”
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“I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.”
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“The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.”
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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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“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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