1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

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    They think you can’t feel anything, because they’ve forgotten how. You’re very, very dangerous, I get that, and you’re prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don’t let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

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    She tastes like every dark thought I’ve ever had.

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    Everyone danced – sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

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    The big question of vampires, the question that hunts governments and individuals alike, the question that bug me every night when I see their red eyes watching citizens of Coldtown the ways hungry cats watch fishin a bucket is: what are they? Are they diseased or demonic? Are they humans who have become ill, deserving hospitals and care, as some have argued? Or are they the bodies of our loved ones animated by some dark force that we ought to seek to destroy?

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    Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.” His gaze goes to me. “To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.

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    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 Kirk? Well, me too.’ It was easier for her to understand that way.

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    I think I prefer Locke and his friends chasing me around the woods to you stabbing me in the back. Again.

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    Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.

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    He was ruinously beautiful in the way that knives and scalpels can be beautiful.

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