1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.” His eyes are black with desire. “By you, I am forever undone.

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

But if you didn’t believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

Happiness isn’t something to carefully measure out in spoonfuls as though it’s medicine. I don’t need you to suffer to prove your love, and I definitely don’t need you to hide your suffering. I want to shoulder half our burden.

I guess he’s used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I’ve never seemed as normal as I thought.

You can’t play pretend forever.

You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he’s done, or come to like it too much.

I remember what it was to hate him with the whole of my heart, but I’ve remembered too late.

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it’s not going to encourage anyone’s betterment.