Quote

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

Holly Black

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Jealousy
Poisonous
Veins

More quotes by Holly Black

Image
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
Holly Black
Image
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
Holly Black
Image
I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
Holly Black
Image
If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
Holly Black
Image
My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
Holly Black
Image
She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
Holly Black
Image
whatever you love, that is your weakness
Holly Black
Image
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.
Holly Black
Image
Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
Holly Black
Image
Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
Holly Black
Image
I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously
Holly Black
Image
They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.
Holly Black
Image
You both ... you both saved me? Come on, said Luis. You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.
Holly Black
Image
It is my belief that books are living things.
Holly Black
Image
Farewell, Father, she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
Holly Black
Image
He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.
Holly Black
Image
I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
Holly Black
Image
I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
Holly Black
Image
We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
Holly Black
Image
You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
Holly Black