1,011 Quotes by Holly Black

There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man.

Um,” he said, because his conversational skills were amazing.

He had known only two rulers, both great and neither good. He did not know how to be any kind of King nor how to win, other than to be even more ruthless than they.

I haven’t had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone’s dead and my root beer’s gone.

I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy.

He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he’s never seen me before or as though he thought he might never see me again.

Instead, I try to imagine someone she might fall in love with. Maybe it will be a merrow, and he will give her the gift of breathing underwater and a crown of pearls and take her to his bed under the sea. Actually, that sounds amazing. Maybe I am making all the wrong choices.

There’s people who do things and people who never do – who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.

I made you believe that you were what I wanted you to become.