Top 500 Holly Black Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.”

— Holly Black

302. “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

303. “Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

306. “He picked up her purse from where it rested beside her and shook it gently. “In case you were concerned. All just as you left it.” She nodded. “Thanks. Although I guess whether I’ll ever get to use that marker is pretty up in the air right now.” “You should have let me eat her in that parking lot,” Gavriel said, raising his eyebrows.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

308. “I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I’m sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I’m ridiculous. I get that you think I’m hilarious. I know, I get that you’re mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know.”

— Holly Black

309. “He stares at me as though I am a stranger, but I have never felt less like one. For the first time, we are both unmasked.”

— Holly Black

310. “Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.”

— Holly Black

311. “Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”

— Holly Black

312. “A king is a living symbol, a beating heart, a star upon which Elfhame’s future is written. Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors are a bit more vivid, smells are sharper... When he becomes drunk, his subjects becomes tipsy without knowing why. When his blood falls, things grow.”

— Holly Black

313. “If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic. She’d seen a lot of old movies, and that was definitely the way to go out.”

— Holly Black

314. “Some things exist whether you believe in them or not.”

— Holly Black

315. “Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I’m a slug.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

317. “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

318. “He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself on knowing those things – but that didn’t mean he needed anyone else to see them as well.”

— Holly Black

319. “Las tormentas son menos volubles de lo que son, los mares menos caprichosos.”

— Holly Black

320. “He looks every inch a spy from the Court of Shadows, down to the sneaky smile pulling at the corner of his beautiful mouth.”

— Holly Black

321. “Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.”

— Holly Black

322. “I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.”

— Holly Black

323. “I’m not a monster, I’d told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.”

— Holly Black

324. “They ran through the night together in a darkling fairy tale of blood and forests and snow, of girls with raven’s wing hair and rose-red lips and sharp teeth as white as milk.”

— Holly Black

325. “He would make out with girls in front of her. He would make out with boys in front of her. He would wink at her from across rooms, daring her to criticize him.”

— Holly Black

326. “It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.”

— Holly Black

327. “Everyone danced – sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.”

— Holly Black

328. “I know I shouldn’t love it as I do, stolen as I am from the mortal world, my parents murdered. But I love it all the same.”

— Holly Black

329. “He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he’s never seen me before or as though he thought he might never see me again.”

— Holly Black

330. “The Alkahest is gone. If he’s the one who got it, they’re not going to bother with prison. He’ll be dead as soon as they find him.”

— Holly Black

331. “There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery – Cassel Sharpe.”

— Holly Black

332. “We all want stupid things. That doesn’t mean we should have them.”

— Holly Black

333. “It’s the thrill of leaping without being able to see the ground below you, right before you realise that’s called falling.”

— Holly Black

334. “I thought you needed to be tougher. But I’ve been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn’t the kind of protecting that anybody wants.”

— Holly Black

335. “Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise.”

— Holly Black

336. “Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.”

— Holly Black

337. “Val and Ruth had been friends forever, for so long that Val was used to being the overshadowed one, the “normal” one, the one who set up the witty one-liners, not the one who delivered them. She liked that role; it made her feel safe. Robin to Ruth’s Batman. Chewbaca to her Han Solo.”

— Holly Black

338. “You whom I could not save Listen to me.” – CZESLAW MILOSZ, “Dedication.”

— Holly Black

339. “A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.”

— Holly Black

340. “But if you didn’t believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”

— Holly Black

341. “People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.”

— Holly Black

342. “Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It’s not like you’re actually currently betraying him.”

— Holly Black

343. “Oh, God, Call thought. Tamara’s father. And he’d just kissed Tamara. Was that why Mr. Rajavi was here? Don’t be totally ridiculous, said Aaron. Do you think he’s psychic or something? Kimiya was grounded for making out with Evil Overlord Alex – Tamara had said so. Mr. Rajavi had a well-established policy of not liking his children making out with Evil Overlords.”

— Holly Black

344. “I can learn to live with guilt. I don’t care about being good.”

— Holly Black

345. “I liked you, you know,” he says. “I like you still.” For a moment, I wonder what would happen if I hauled off and punched him.”

— Holly Black

346. “So it’s not as bad as it looks?” Call ventured. “Oh, no,” she told him. “It’s just as bad as it looks. But I’m very, very good at my job.”

— Holly Black

347. “Nothing can happen more beautiful than death – Walt Whitman.”

— Holly Black

348. “Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.”

— Holly Black

349. “Call wasn’t sure what it meant that he’d gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn’t manage to impress him.”

— Holly Black

350. “I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this.”

— Holly Black