1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

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.

For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.” I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?” He grins up at me. “They missed.

We don’t need to be good. But let’s try to be fair.

It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

Would an Evil Overlord drink the last cup of coffee in the pot? Which book would an Evil Overlord take out from the library? Was dressing in all black a definite Evil Overlord move, or a legitimate choice on laundry day?

I’ve wanted this and feared it, and now that it’s happening, I don’t know how I will ever want anything else.

I’m sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can’t ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

The hardest thing – the impossible thing – is to get past the memory of Cardan telling me he loved me. He said those words, and I didn’t answer him. I thought there would be time. And I was happy – despite everything – I was happy, just before everything went so terribly wrong. We won. Everything was going to work out. And he loved me.

And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.