Holly Black Quotes - Page 3

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• Can't get away from your own self.

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  Self, Get Away

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• You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

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  Love You, Guilty, Betray

  Holly Black, Ted Naifeh (2008). “Kin”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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• He looks like the good boy he's never been.

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  Boys, Looks, Good Boy

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

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  Veins, Poisonous

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

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  Beautiful, Flaws, Crippled

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

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  Love You, World, Way

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

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  Choices, Guilt, Care

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• I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

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  Mean, Weirdness, Good Things

  Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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• I survive at the edge of friends circles.

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  Circles, Edges

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

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  Deception, Language, Born

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

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  Hurt, Skins, Peeling

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no words for how much I will miss her, but I try to kiss her so that she'll know. I try to kiss her to tell her the whole story of my love, the way I dreamed of her when she was dead, the way that every other girl seemed like a mirror that showed me her face. The way my skin ached for her. The way that kissing her made me feel like I was drowning and like I was being saved all at the same time. I hope she can taste all that, bittersweet, on my tongue.

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  Girl, Kissing, Mirrors

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• I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

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  Hurt, Voice, Break

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Growing Up, Lying, Stories

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

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  Book, Knows

  Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black (2009). “The Completely Fantastical Edition: The Field Guide; The Seeing Stone; Lucinda's Secret; The Ironwood Tree; The Wrath of Mulgarath”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

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  Love Is, Language Of Love, Warning

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

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  Shapes, Want, Break

  Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

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  Party, Tea, Dolls

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

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  Couple, Thinking, Together

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Want

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

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  Sarcastic, Might, Wells

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• I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.

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  Girlfriend, Holiday, Winter

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

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  Thieves, Kind, Stolen

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.133, Hachette UK

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• She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

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  Falling In Love, Sky, Burning

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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