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Famous Holly Black Quotes
“It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.”
“You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.”
“Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.”
“Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.”
“For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.”
“Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.”
“He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.”
“Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.”
“There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.”
“I like all the things that make you monstrous.”
“Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.”
“Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.”
“Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”
“That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.”
“Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.”
“More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.”