Top 500 Holly Black Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”

— Holly Black

252. “Would an Evil Overlord drink the last cup of coffee in the pot? Which book would an Evil Overlord take out from the library? Was dressing in all black a definite Evil Overlord move, or a legitimate choice on laundry day?”

— Holly Black

253. “Happiness isn’t something to carefully measure out in spoonfuls as though it’s medicine. I don’t need you to suffer to prove your love, and I definitely don’t need you to hide your suffering. I want to shoulder half our burden.”

— Holly Black

254. “What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?”

— Holly Black

255. “A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.”

— Holly Black

256. “It’s shocking,” he says, as though he’s giving me some great compliment. “I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again.”

— Holly Black

257. “You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”

— Holly Black

258. “Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.”

— Holly Black

259. “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

260. “Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.”

— Holly Black

261. “The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It’s not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.”

— Holly Black

262. “Cosa sarei potuta diventare se avessi smesso di preoccuparmi della morte, del dolore, di tutto? Se avessi smesso di cercare un senso di appartenenza? Invece di avere paura, sarei diventata io quella da temere.”

— Holly Black

263. “Cardan lies on the rug with one arm propping up his head and the other slung across Jude’s waist. He understands everything and nothing he sees on the screen- just as he understands everything and nothing about being here with her family. He feels like a feral cat that might bite out of habit.”

— Holly Black

264. “And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over that blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.”

— Holly Black

265. “You’re yourself,” Tana said, grinning. “More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can’t see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.”

— Holly Black

266. “He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.”

— Holly Black

267. “They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows.”

— Holly Black

268. “And if I never change back? If I’m not human enough anymore?” He smiled; she could feel it against her skin. “Then we’ll go hunt vampires together and you’ll drink their blood.” “The Lady or The Tiger,” she said, thinking of the drinking game she’d played at the farmhouse, thinking of the story that never ended, of a coin spinning without falling on heads or tails. “My lady, the tiger,” he told her, and got up to turn the camera back on.”

— Holly Black

269. “Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.”

— Holly Black

270. “Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.”

— Holly Black

271. “Neither loyalty nor love should be compelled.”

— Holly Black

272. “I’m the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he’s stolen.”

— Holly Black

273. “There are dog people and cat people.”

— Holly Black

274. “You’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet.”

— Holly Black

275. “Maybe the point of real friendship isn’t that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As.”

— Holly Black

276. “Cardan grins at me as though we’ve been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be – and how dangerous that is.”

— Holly Black

277. “Cardan’s gaze catches mine, and I can’t help the evil smile that pulls up the corners of my mouth. His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day.”

— Holly Black

278. “You might beg to differ. So long as you’re begging, he doesn’t mind a bit.”

— Holly Black

279. “Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually sawing a girl in half. You think he’s doing one trick when he’s actually doing another. You think that I’m dying, but I’m laughing at you.”

— Holly Black

280. “After all, who wants to die slowly when you can die fast? Me.”

— Holly Black

281. “I still feel the warm pressure of his fingers against my skin. Something is really wrong with me, to want what I hate, to want someone who despises me, even if he wants me, too. My only comfort is that he doesn’t know what I feel.”

— Holly Black

282. “The only way to end grief was to go through it.”

— Holly Black

283. “We slept on mattresses stuffed with the soft seed-heads of dandelions.”

— Holly Black

284. “Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously.”

— Holly Black

285. “Wicked girl. Yet you let your sister take the brunt of my ire. That wasn’t very nice, was it?”

— Holly Black

286. “Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?” Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. “Could you guys try to lay low?”

— Holly Black

287. “People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void.”

— Holly Black

288. “I’m not even a little bit dead.”

— Holly Black

289. “It was good to be hugged. Even by a monster.”

— Holly Black

290. “She had a way of making everyone around her feel as though every impossible thing was possible.”

— Holly Black

291. “Knowledge and action are one and the same.”

— Holly Black

292. “Princess Elowyn whirls at the center of a circle of Larks. Her skin is a glittering gold, her hair the deep green of ivy. Beside her, a human boy plays the fiddle. Two more mortals accompany him less skillfully, but more joyfully, on ukuleles.”

— Holly Black

293. “I have, for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear.”

— Holly Black

294. “Ah! A lady of mystery! My very favorite kind.”

— Holly Black

295. “I take a deep breath, at home and homesick all at the same time.”

— Holly Black

296. “If there is nothing but this;” Roiben said. “If we are to be shadows, changeless and forgotten, we will have to dine on these memories for the rest of our days. Don’t you want a few more moments to chew over?”

— Holly Black

297. “It is my belief that books are living things... And as living things, they need to be protected.”

— Holly Black

298. “To Ben, love was the flame in which he wanted to be reborn. He wanted to be remade by it.”

— Holly Black

299. “So much of winning is waiting. The other part, though, is taking the shot when it comes. Unleashing all that momentum.”

— Holly Black

300. “You’re going to get all the things you think you can’t have,” she says quietly, reaching out to rub red lipstick from my cheek. “You just don’t know it yet.”

— Holly Black