1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

You should tell him, I say. Which is not bad advice, I think. Not advice I would take myself, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.

Being in the infirmary when you'd gotten injured being awesome was totally different from being in the Infirmary for doing something dumb.

I know that in Faerie, children are rare and precious and all that, but in the mortal world, there’s such a thing as abortion,” Vivi says. “And even here, there are changelings.”“And adoption,” Heather puts in. “It’s your decision. No one would judge you.”“If they did, I could cut off their hands,” I volunteer.

Y en el mundo real, Santa no es justo. Los niños ricos reciben todo y los niños pobres reciben basura de segunda mano que sus padres consiguen a duras penas. Hasta sentarte en el regazo de Santa cuesta dinero.

Each of you will have a chance to play it, and whosoever plays most sweetly, you will have it. For art is more than virtue or vice.

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

You’re terrible at this whole ‘tell me whatever I want to know’ thing.” My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don’t pick it up.He sighs. “Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don’t you want to see it?” He raises his brows.