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Holly Black Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”
— Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Tagged: Believe In Evil To Protect Yourself, monsters
“Once someone’s hurt you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you from wanting them.”
— Holly Black, White Cat
Tagged: Love, hurt
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
— Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tagged: Ocean, Serenity, Love, Poetic
“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
— Holly Black, White Cat(The Curse Workers)
Tagged: Lies, Honesty, Desire
“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”
— Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Tagged: beauty, Pride, Achievement
“You set me up,' I say. 'One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.”
— Holly Black, Black Heart(The Curse Workers)
Tagged: Con Artistry, Easy Targets vs. Targets Who Fight Back, The Game of Manipulation
“Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.”
— Holly Black, The Cruel Prince(The Folk of the Air)
Tagged: Supernatural, Immortality, Divine Beauty
“Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes, but it hurts them too.”
— Holly Black, A quote by Holly Black
Tagged: Hurting, Being hurt, Pain, Sadness
“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry.”
— Holly Black, Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale(Modern Faerie Tales)
Tagged: Girls Like Her, Restless Women, The Hunger of Women, Destructive Women, Voracious Women
“Santa’s not fair. Rich kids get everything and poor kids get secondhand crap their parents bust their asses to afford. It costs money just to sit on Santa’s lap.”
— Holly Black, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Tagged: Christmas, santa
“Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.”
— Holly Black, White Cat(The Curse Workers)
Tagged: Con Artistry, The Targets of Manipulators
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
— Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Break, broken, Heartbroken
“Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.”
— Holly Black, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tagged: Flaws, beauty
“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
— Holly Black, The Cruel Prince(The Folk of the Air)
Tagged: Dark Humor, Action Not Emotions
“Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.”
— Holly Black, Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale
Tagged: Strange and Beautiful
“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”
— Holly Black, Red Glove(The Curse Workers)
Tagged: Good Boys, bad boys, Behind the Mask, Behind the Facade, Skin-deep, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
“...she tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.”
— Holly Black, White Cat
Tagged: Love, kiss, romance
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