Holly Black Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

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  Change, People, Choices

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

• I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

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  Choices, Guilt, Care

• But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

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  Angel, Black And White, Evil

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

• Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

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  Giving, Choices, Magic

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

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  Cutting, Long, Rose

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

• The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.

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  Hard Times, Funny Things, Ideas

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

• Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

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  Choices, Sometimes, Good Choices

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.82, Hachette UK

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