1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously.

I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.

What they don’t realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by the man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn’t pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc’s estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow

Ah! A lady of mystery! My very favorite kind.

Run! I want to shout. But, of course, that's the one thing I don't need to tell her to do.

Get up,” the knight says. Dulcamara. Her face shows no recognition of me, however.I stand, and she marches me into the tent, kicking me in the legs once we get there so I topple onto the rugs. I have cause to be thankful for their plushness. For a moment, I let myself lie there. She presses her boot against the small of my back as though I am some felled prey.“I caught a spy,” she announces. “Shall I snap its neck?

I was a fool", I say, because i might as well admit it. " I gave up the bird in my hand for two in the bush

I said that if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.