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People Quotes by Holly Black
- If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?
- People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign…
- A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's…
- I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.
- I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He…
- Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
- The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
- Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small…
- The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys…
- You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.
- As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the…
- 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.…
- There are dog people and cat people.
- The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling…
- Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I…
- His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
- I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and…
- There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest.…
- Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people…
- Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
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