Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3) QUOTES

2 " 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)

4 " Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

6 " Some promises aren’t worth keeping. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

8 " I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

10 " We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

12 " You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

14 " Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

16 " She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

18 " Would you?” Mom smiles and touches my hair, pushing it back from my forehead. I let her, but I grit my teeth. Her bare fingers brush my skin. I am thankful when none of my amulets crack. “Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. Isn’t that beautiful? My grandfather told me that when I was a little girl, and I never forgot it. Unfortunately, I still like my milk. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)

20 " He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery. "

― Holly Black , Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)