Holly Black quotes

Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn. (Holly Black)
To remind me, pain is the best teacher. View quote
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You are more dangerous than daybreak. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. View quote
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I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either. View quote
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Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks. View quote
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What an author doesn't know could fill a book. View quote
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And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it. View quote
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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. (Holly Black)
But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them? View quote
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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. View quote
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If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people? View quote
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He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke. View quote
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Don't be drinking the Haterade. View quote
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You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage. View quote
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He looks like the good boy he's never been. View quote
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I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent. View quote
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I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment. View quote
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Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous? (Holly Black)
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. View quote
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If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val. View quote
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You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much. View quote
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She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally. View quote
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