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101 " The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true. "
― Holly Black , White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)
102 " If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. "
― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
103 " 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. "
104 " Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop. "
105 " What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear. "
106 " If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back. "
107 " Every hero is the villain of his own story. "
― Holly Black , The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
108 " 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. "
― Holly Black , Ironside (Modern Faerie Tales, #3)
109 " We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder. "
110 " No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets. "
― Holly Black , Red Glove (Curse Workers, #2)
111 " Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it. "
― Holly Black , The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)
112 " I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do. "
113 " I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me. "
114 " Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours. "
115 " Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. "
― Holly Black , The Darkest Part of the Forest
116 " If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic. "
117 " Death’s favorites don’t die. "
118 " Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to. "
119 " She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes. "
― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)
120 " 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. "