Explore Quotes by Holly Black

I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

Every plan is a house of cards.

He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.

One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?

Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.

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.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.