1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

I raise a plastic glass. “To family.”“And Faerieland,” says Taryn, raising hers.“And pizza,” says Oak.“And stories,” says Heather.“And new beginnings,” says Vivi.Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. “And scheming great schemes.”To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.

... on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress.

And no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.

Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter.” She goes to the freezer and removes a tub of mint chocolate chip. She brings that and two spoons back to the sofa. “For now, accept this delight, unworthy though it is for the Queen of Faerie in exile.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

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.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over that blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.