Holly Black Quotes - Page 7

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

  Holly Black

  Night, Giving, Ask Me

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

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• I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

  Holly Black

  Crush, Hate, Admitting

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• God, I hate you,” she says. “So much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much they loved her and how they only dumped her for her own good? That they only tried to rearrange her brain for her own good? Does it make you feel better, Cassel? Does it? Because from my perspective, it really sucks.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Lying, Hate

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.

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  Daughter, Father, Want

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Passion, Eye, Hands

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• I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

  Holly Black

  Cat, Kissing, Airports

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

  Holly Black

  Dark, Mirrors, Hair

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

  Holly Black

  Party, Gunshots

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.

  Holly Black

  Kissing, Boys, Thinking

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• There are dog people and cat people.

  Holly Black

  Dog, Cat, People

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• Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily. His skin felt hot, even through the cloth of her shirt, his touch was both soothing and electric. She leaned into him without thinking. His thighs parted, rough black cloth scratching against her jeans as she moved between his long legs. His eyes half-lidded as he pushed himself off the desk, their bodies sliding together, his hands still holding hers. Then, suddenly, he froze.

  Holly Black

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Betrayal, Wonder

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• I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

  Holly Black

  Crazy, Back When

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.

  Holly Black

  Men, Glasses, Magic

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• Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns? Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you? Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way. Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?

  Holly Black

  Fall, Hair, Cells

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• She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

  Holly Black

  Fun, Blow, Years

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

  Holly Black

  Drunk, Sound, Body

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

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• So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. "And if I said nothing at all?" "Then I would point out that sometimes, if you look at something out of the corner of your eye, you can see right through glamour," she returned. That brought surprised laughter. "What a relief to us both then that I am actually wearing exactly what you saw me in this afternoon. Although one might point out that in that outfit, your last concern should be my modesty.

  Holly Black

  Laughter, Eye, Mind

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't lie," I lied.

  Holly Black

  Lying, Lied, Don't Lie

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• You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

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  Cat, House, Leopards

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.

  Holly Black

  Fall, Angel, Thinking

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• Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

  Holly Black

  Poodles, Remember, Quip

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

  Holly Black

  Crutches, Curse

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Giving, People

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

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• He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

  Holly Black

  Lying, Waiting, Next

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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