1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

Why am I the way I am?” His tone makes it clear he’s proposing something I might suggest he ask, not really wondering about it. “There are no real answers, Jude. Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.

Nice things don’t happen in storybooks,” Taryn says. “Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

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

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

You think because you can humiliate me, you can control me?

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.

I have heard for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear

If you don’t know why you’re apologizing, your apology probably sucks.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.