Top 500 Holly Black Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

— Holly Black

52. “Like all schools, we are always interested in learning, in research, in pushing the limits of knowledge. But we must balance that with our duty to protect the world, even from ourselves.”

— Holly Black

53. “You’ve got to grow where you’re planted.”

— Holly Black

54. “She’d always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.”

— Holly Black

55. “Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.”

— Holly Black

56. “Mutually assured destruction.”

— Holly Black

57. “I survive at the edge of friends circles.”

— Holly Black

58. “It’s not that I don’t know that it’s a bad idea. It’s that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.”

— Holly Black

59. “Cruddy Mouthbreather.”

— Holly Black

60. “He leans in and closes his eyes. “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.” I am shocked into silence.”

— Holly Black

61. “I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.”

— Holly Black

62. “By you, I am forever undone.”

— Holly Black

63. “Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”

— Holly Black

64. “We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.”

— Holly Black

65. “What is a king without a crown? That’s a riddle, but one to which we all know the answer: no king at all.”

— Holly Black

66. “We don’t need to be good. But let’s try to be fair.”

— Holly Black

67. “The whole place looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing. never the cause of pain.”

— Holly Black

68. “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

69. “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.”

— Holly Black

70. “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

71. “Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it’s sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.”

— Holly Black

72. “There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man.”

— Holly Black

73. “Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”

— Holly Black

74. “I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”

— Holly Black

75. “I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.”

— Holly Black

76. “You have only seen the least of what I can do.”

— Holly Black

77. “Kill him before he makes you love him.”

— Holly Black

78. “Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”

— Holly Black

79. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.” I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?” He grins up at me. “They missed.”

— Holly Black

80. “He’s flint, you’re tinder.”

— Holly Black

81. “I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”

— Holly Black

82. “The first boy I fell in love with didn’t know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.”

— Holly Black

83. “He presses his mouth to the pulse point of my wrist, racing in time with my heart. “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.” His eyes are black with desire. “By you, I am forever undone.”

— Holly Black

84. “She’s my wife,” Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. “The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.”

— Holly Black

85. “There’s always something left to lose.”

— Holly Black

86. “Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”

— Holly Black

87. “I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.”

— Holly Black

88. “Marry me,” he says. “Become the Queen of Elfhame.”

— Holly Black

89. “A sharp tongue is no match for a sharp tooth.”

— Holly Black

90. “I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. “And you.” He looks at me, his lips curving in something that’s not quite a smile; it’s more and less than that. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.” And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.”

— Holly Black

91. “Fire can either burn down your house or warm it.”

— Holly Black

92. “Only idiots aren’t scared of things that are scary.”

— Holly Black

93. “Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom.”

— Holly Black

94. “Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”

— Holly Black

95. “I wasn’t kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn’t sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone – truly gone beneath the waves – I hated myself as I never have before.”

— Holly Black

96. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.”

— Holly Black

97. “If he thought I was bad, I would be worse. If he thought I was cruel, I would be horrifying.”

— Holly Black

98. “Life’s full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.”

— Holly Black

99. “And no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.”

— Holly Black

100. “I guess it’s true; no one will ever love you like your family.”

— Holly Black