Holly Black Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Holly Black

  Giving, Choices, Magic

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

• Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

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  Memories, Giving, People

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

• One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

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  Night, Giving, Ask Me

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.48, Hachette UK

• If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

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  Giving Up, Real, Father

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

• He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

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  Dirty, Hair, Giving

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.3, Hachette UK

• What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin" "Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?

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  Thinking, Blood, Ice

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