1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

That’s really paranoid,” I say admiringly. “I’m going with that.

I am used to girls screaming, and your screams- your screams will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.

You better have kissed him! You better have kissed him so hard that he just about choked on your tongue. And if not, you better go kiss him like that right now.

Jude, you can’t really think I don’t know it’s you.

Cardan grins at me as though we’ve been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be – and how dangerous that is.

A king is a living symbol, a beating heart, a star upon which Elfhame’s future is written. Surely you have noticed that since his reign began, the isles are different. Storms come in faster. Colors are a bit more vivid, smells are sharper... When he becomes drunk, his subjects becomes tipsy without knowing why. When his blood falls, things grow.

I had a tutor who wanted me to believe that mercy is a kind of sorrow and that since evil is the motive of sorrow, evil is also the motive of mercy. I thought that my tutor was old and cruel, and maybe he was – but now I think he was also right.

A heart of stone can still be broken.