1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

Do you seek out peril? One would think that years of being a mortal would have made you more aware of mortality.

What is a king without a crown? That’s a riddle, but one to which we all know the answer: no king at all.

I rub a hand over my face. By the fire, a spindly, insectile, faerie stirs a big pot. "You want soup, mortal? "I shake my head. "You want to be soup? " it asks hopefully.

In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

She loved him so much, that it already hurt. It already felt like he'd broken her heart.

Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.

But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline strike of lightning, like the moment when you've swum too far out in the sea and there is no going back, only cold black water closing over your head.

Watch the blade, not the soldier, Madoc told me many times. Steel never deceives.

Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.