1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

It's important that you show him that I've taught you the proper respect for your elders.""Then perhaps you should have.

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

We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.

When you don't know what you're searching for,” he says, “you have to look absolutely everywhere.

That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.

So you'll teach me?" Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire.""I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand."I know you're very brave," he said."Or stupid.""And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

You didn’t get what you deserved, but you don’t have to live inside that one story forever. No one’s heart has to remain stone.

A fly buzzed over her shoulder making her think of the bodies inside, at the way the flies would be landing on them, at the opalescent maggots that would hatch and tunnel, multiplying endlessly, spreading like an infection until black flies covered the room in a shifting carpet, until all anyone could hear was the whirring of their glassy wings.

No, I won’t help you. No, I won’t hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.