Holly Black

“You’re coming with me.”

— Holly Black

“No fire at all.”

— Holly Black

“Guard your mortal heart.”

— Holly Black

I don't lie," I lied.

— Holly Black

“The Big Score.”

— Holly Black

Every plan is a house of cards.

— Holly Black

Mutually assured destruction.

— Holly Black

“He's flint, you're tinder.”

— Holly Black

“My sweet nemesis , how glad I am that you returned”

— Holly Black

“Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom”

— Holly Black

“Aren't you ever careless?' he asked. 'Always, with you.”

— Holly Black

“Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.”

— Holly Black

“The water is cold, but his kiss is colder.”

— Holly Black

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

— Holly Black

whatever you love, that is your weakness

— Holly Black

“Show your power by appearing powerless.”

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

“Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same. So too, power.”

— Holly Black

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize…

— Holly Black

“It’s disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.”

— Holly Black

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

— Holly Black

“Coldtown was dangerous. Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them.”

— Holly Black

“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your…

— Holly Black

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

— Holly Black

“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie…

— Holly Black

“When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court…

— Holly Black

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even…

— Holly Black

“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. When…

— Holly Black

“She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd…

— Holly Black

“There it is. That temper you try to hide. You know what fascinates me about you? You're a hungry person sitting in…

— Holly Black

“Opening the window, I sit at Taryn's desk and sip nettle tea, drinking in the sharp salt scent of the sea and…

— Holly Black

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep…

— Holly Black

The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A…

— Holly Black

Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You…

— Holly Black

“The hardest thing- the impossible thing- is to get past the memory of Cardan telling me he loved me. He said those…

— Holly Black

“Taryn is beautiful in her heavily embroidered dress, and Vivi radiant in soft violet grey with artfully sewn moths seeming to fly…

— Holly Black

“Wisdom is for the meek,' he returns. 'And it seldom helps them as much as they believe it will. After all, as…

— Holly Black

“The curse is broken. The king is returned." He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into…

— Holly Black

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant…

— Holly Black

I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a…

— Holly Black