1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

Mithridatism, it’s called. Isn’t that a funny name? The process of eating poison to build up immunity. So long as I don’t die from it, I’ll be harder to kill.

I’m afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality.

She says that if this were a movie, someone would find a poem about cursed snakes and it would give us the clue we needed.

I was a fool”, I say, because i might as well admit it. ” I gave up the bird in my hand for two in the bush.

An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.

We’ll get you another day,” Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.

You’re awful.” He said it as though he was delighted. “And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.

And elsewhere in the woods, there is another party, one taking place inside a hollow hill, full of night-blooming flowers. There, a pale boy plays a fiddle with newly mended fingers while his sister dances with his best friend. There, a monster whirls about, branches waving in time with the music, There, a prince of the Folk takes up the mantle of king, embracing a changeling like a bother, and, with a human boy at his side, names a girl his champion.