Holly Black Quotes

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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.
• I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
• All friendships are negotiations of power.
• And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
• Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
• A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
• You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.
• I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then…
• I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
• What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
• Can't get away from your own self.
• You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
• She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
• The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate.…
• No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court." "Well, I'm not, he dumped me." "You can't get dumped by the lord…
• This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be…
• They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
• Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for…
• Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all…
• If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

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