92 Quotes About Holly-black

His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face.Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.

Mortals are fragile," I say."Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break."Which is ridiculous, as hurt as I am. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Still, I like hearing it. I like everything he's saying all too well.That boy is your weakness.

Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has.

Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.

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

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

You’ve manipulated the High King of Faerie intoobeying you, but you can’t find a way to manipulate one jerk into keepingour sister happy?

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.