Holly Black Quotes
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Holly Black Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy.
She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here."
"I live here.
"I live here.
If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."
Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
It was a vow, a piece of a chant, their scripture, something they took so seriously that saying it aloud embarrassed them.
'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'
I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought.
Of course, that was probably a problem with being an Evil Overlord. You didn't regret the right things.
Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.
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.
People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void.
The book turned out to be one she'd read before, where zombies chased around a brother-and-sister reporting team.
Call wasn't sure what it meant that he'd gone full Evil Overlord on Jasper but still couldn't manage to impress him.
Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.
Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.
I have no idea what to say to him. "The Latin Club is totally evil," I blurt.
"The Latin Club?"
I can understand why he's confused.
"The Latin Club?"
I can understand why he's confused.
The Alkahest is gone. If he's the one who got it, they're not going to bother with prison. He'll be dead as soon as they find him.
I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.
You have carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you have carried it long before that.
His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.
Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.
If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.
You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.
He had green eyes so clear and bright that they made you think of poisonous drinks or maybe mouthwash.
I'll help you protect her," Sam says. "If you want to."...
"Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her?
"Okay. Is it really that obvious I'm into her?
Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out.
When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.
She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster.
You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work.
The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.
So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job.
She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.
There is something of yours that i would like to return to you ... He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.