1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.

You’re like this leopard who’s pretending to be a house cat.

Our lives are the only real thing we have, our only coin. We get to buy what we want with them.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your hearts blood should run cold.

Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It’s not like you’re actually currently betraying him.

Let’s have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone – desire so acute that it became despair.

She’s looking around the forest, as though if she can prove it isn’t magic, then nothing else is, either. Which is stupid. All forests are magic.

It’s ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,” Vivi says. “Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.