1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.

The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

It is my belief that books are living things.

At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

There are dog people and cat people.