1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with.

We know about your brother. He called and told us himself. Said to imagine Faerieland like an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. I told him it was more like an exclusive boarding school in hell.

I think you have iron poisoning,” she tells him, which could be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I’m a slug.

Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied?

I don’t want anyone normal. I don’t want anyone safe. I want you. I have loved you from almost the first moment I saw you, wild and fierce and brave...

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves something important, something so important we don’t tell ourselves in a very straightforward way. Sometimes we can only do it with a new face.

The Alkahest is gone. If he’s the one who got it, they’re not going to bother with prison. He’ll be dead as soon as they find him.

I bet Cardan has never even tried pizza.