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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
Holly Black
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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
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New Jersey
United States
Twice
Clever
Devil
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Beauty
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I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
Holly Black
It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. Guess what? I'm a worker.
Holly Black
I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.
Holly Black
It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
Holly Black
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.
Holly Black
I'm a powerful being... a wizard, Corny said. So don't try anything. Yes, said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. No. Try nothing.
Holly Black
Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
Holly Black
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
Holly Black
in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.
Holly Black
I would remain nearer you for what time there is. Gone in one faerie sigh, she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. I can hold my breath.
Holly Black
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
Holly Black
There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
Holly Black
I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
Holly Black
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.
Holly Black
And stupid. Brave and Stupid. Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
Holly Black
A stray dog, I might understand, she said. But this? You are too softhearted. No, Mabry, Ravus said. I am not. He looked in Val's direction. I think she wants to die. Maybe you can help her after all, Mabry said. You're good at helping people die.
Holly Black
whatever you love, that is your weakness
Holly Black
He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
Holly Black
I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
Holly Black
The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.
Holly Black