Life Quotes by Holly Black

Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

It is my belief that books are living things.

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

“I step out of my second life the same way I stepped out of my first, holding too few things and with…

— Holly Black

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

— Holly Black

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot…

— Holly Black

“She has known the tide and undertow of my feelings, my hurts, both small and large, for most of my life.”

— Holly Black

“I tried to kill you,' she reminds me. 'You've described pretty much every important relationship in my life,' I return.”

— Holly Black

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No…

— Holly Black

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your…

— Holly Black

“It's you I love," he says. "I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I…

— Holly Black

“...My life has always been a powder keg waiting for a match." "Well, hello, match," Hazel said, pointing to herself with both…

— Holly Black

“I don’t imagine myself back in a life like theirs; what I imagine is going over there and scaring them until they…

— Holly Black

A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short…

— Holly Black

“Sometimes it seemed as though all her life was already used up in that dark basement, as if her mother’s mouth on…

— 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

“If life were like a video game, she would have used her power move to whip Jen in the air and knock…

— Holly Black

I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right…

— Holly Black

At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable,…

— Holly Black

There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank…

— Holly Black