Holly Black Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. By you, I am forever undone. The Queen of Nothing

2. By you, I am forever undone. The Queen of Nothing

3. Have I told you how hideous you look tonight? Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.No I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. Tell me."I can't. The Cruel Prince

4. Have I told you how hideous you look tonight? Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.No I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. Tell me."I can't. The Cruel Prince

5. His eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop myself from making embarrassing noises. It’s more intimate than the way he’s touching me, to be looked at like that. I hate that he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. I hate being vulnerable. I hate that I throw my head back, baring my throat. I hate the way I cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst. The Wicked King

6. I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone. The Cruel Prince

7. I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all. The Darkest Part of the Forest

8. I missed you," I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. "In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you.""My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned. The Queen of Nothing

9. I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?One piece at a time. The Queen of Nothing

10. If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back. Tithe

11. It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes. The Wicked King

12. Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness The Wicked King

13. Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone. The Queen of Nothing

14. No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court.""Well, I'm not, he dumped me.""You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court.""Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can. Ironside

15. She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had. White Cat

16. 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. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

17. Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost. The Queen of Nothing

18. Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. White Cat

19. The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies. Red Glove

20. This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. Red Glove

21. 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.

22. Well, even if the serpent bites off your head, says Tatterfell, the rest of you will still look good.That’s the spirit, I tell her. The Queen of Nothing

23. Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way. Tithe

24. You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that. Valiant

25. I remember his definition of magic vividly: the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with will. My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

26. I’ve stripped my life down, he told me. I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here. He shot himself in the head with his fingers. People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars. Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd

27. Nie mamy nic, tylko właśnie nasze życie. Jak jedną, jedyną monetę. Chodzi o to, żeby za nią kupić to, czego chcemy. The Cruel Prince

28. One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys. Valiant

29. What an author doesn't know could fill a book. Lucinda's Secret

30. You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?"He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face."You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but... I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that."Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?"He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that you feel for me as I do for you," he said, his voice like a sigh against her throat.And how is that?" she asked, her lips so close to his jaw that she could taste the salt of his skin when she moved them.You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that."She smiled and let her eyes drift closed. They lay there together, under the bridge, city lights burning outside the windows like a sky full of falling stars, as they slid off into sleep Valiant