1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don’t trust wolves. Don’t steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don’t trust people who want to share their good with you; don’t eat their shiny red apples, not their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don’t break a promise.

Go ahead. Insult me.” His eyebrows go up. “I don’t take commands from mortals,” he says with his customary cruel smile.

There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery – Cassel Sharpe.

And if I never change back? If I’m not human enough anymore?” He smiled; she could feel it against her skin. “Then we’ll go hunt vampires together and you’ll drink their blood.” “The Lady or The Tiger,” she said, thinking of the drinking game she’d played at the farmhouse, thinking of the story that never ended, of a coin spinning without falling on heads or tails. “My lady, the tiger,” he told her, and got up to turn the camera back on.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don’t care about being good.

I know I shouldn’t love it as I do, stolen as I am from the mortal world, my parents murdered. But I love it all the same.

Maybe I didn’t spend decades with you like Lucien did, but I bet I can make you laugh faster than he could.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

If you want my advice,” he says slowly, “love doesn’t grow well, fed on pain. Grant me that I know that at least.