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1 " 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. "
― Holly Black
2 " Changing is what people do when they have no options left. "
― Holly Black , Red Glove (Curse Workers, #2)
3 " I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy. "
4 " I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have. "
― Holly Black , The Darkest Part of the Forest
5 " 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. "
― Holly Black , Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
6 " Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal wants to live "
― Holly Black , The Iron Trial (Magisterium, #1)
7 " The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. "
8 " This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. "
9 " Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. "
― Holly Black , White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)
10 " If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. "
11 " Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die. "
― Holly Black , The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
12 " If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either. "
― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns
13 " I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. "
14 " People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death. "
15 " 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. "
― Holly Black , Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales #2)
16 " 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. "
― Holly Black , Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
17 " An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you're doing, even if the other person isn't doing it back. An unarticulated crush is harder to grapple with, because it's a crush that you haven't even admitted to yourself. The romantic forces are all there -- you want to see him, you always notice him, you treat every word from him as if it weighs more than anyone else's. But you don't know why. You don't know that you're doing it. You'd follow him to the end of the earth without ever admitting that your feet were moving. "
18 " Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks. "
― Holly Black , Ironside (Modern Faerie Tales, #3)
19 " We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it. "
20 " Don’t kill her! Only maim her a little! "
― Holly Black , The Copper Gauntlet (Magisterium, #2)
