1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It’s easy to think you’re succeeding when you’re failing spectacularly.

I think he thinks about girlfriend like some kind of honorary title, like the way that every president is still ‘President So and So,’ no matter who’s currently in office.

He’s flint, you’re tinder.

I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven’t been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I’ve been fighting my own shadow.

Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down.

In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television.

Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow.

That’s the spirit.” Aaron hid a grin. He was already wearing his armband, just above his elbow. Somehow he managed to make it look cool. Call had tied his around his forearm and was fairly sure it looked like a bandage.