Top 500 Holly Black Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?”

— Holly Black

252. “Leaves don’t grow back onto a vine, cracked walnuts don’t fit back into their shells, and girlfriends who’ve been enchanted don’t just wake up and decide to let things slide with their terrifying exes.”

— Holly Black

253. “I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.”

— Holly Black

254. “There you are,” Cardan says as I take my place beside him. “How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversation about how my head is going to find itself on a spike.”

— Holly Black

255. “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

256. “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

257. “They say that nameless things change constantly – that names fix them in place like pins.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

260. “If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”

— Holly Black

261. “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

262. “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

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

— Holly Black

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

269. “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

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

— Holly Black

271. “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

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

276. “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

277. “An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.”

— Holly Black

278. “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

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

— Holly Black

280. “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

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

— Holly Black

282. “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

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

285. “Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

288. “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

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

291. “Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

294. “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

295. “You’re like this leopard who’s pretending to be a house cat.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

297. “Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied?”

— Holly Black

298. “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

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black