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Famous Holly Black Quotes
“It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.”
“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”
“Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.”
“Don't be drinking the Haterade.”
“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”
“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”
“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”
“Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”
“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”
“You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.”
“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”
“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
“Mutually assured destruction.”
“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”
“I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.”
“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”
“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
“Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.”
“You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.”