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81 " I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts. "
― Holly Black , Red Glove (Curse Workers, #2)
82 " You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want. "
― Holly Black , Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
83 " Mutually assured destruction. "
84 " Then you remember that Jack--that's his name, the mac & cheese--plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself. "
― Holly Black , Zombies Vs. Unicorns
85 " Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy. "
86 " She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had. "
― Holly Black , White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)
87 " Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him. "
88 " He gave her a smile that wasn’t really a smile at all. “Eh, it wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’t have to study for the SATs or get a summer job or figure out my major. I can drink Elderflower wine all day, dance all through the night, and sleep on a bower of roses.”Hazel made a face. “I’m pretty sure there are some colleges where you can do that. I bet there are some colleges where you can major in that. "
― Holly Black , The Darkest Part of the Forest
89 " Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it. "
― Holly Black , Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales #2)
90 " 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. "
― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)
91 " We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be "
92 " Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them. "
― Holly Black , The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
93 " Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out. "
94 " She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me. "
95 " Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red. "
96 " Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York? "
97 " Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right. "
98 " I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am. "
― Holly Black , Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
99 " They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die. "
― Holly Black , The Iron Trial (Magisterium, #1)
100 " Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here. "