Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.
Holly Black
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
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
Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
Holly Black
The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
Holly Black
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse
Holly Black
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.
Holly Black
I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.
Holly Black
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
Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.
Holly Black
Nevermore, Lolli said. That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.
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
But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
Holly Black
Don't be drinking the Haterade.
Holly Black
Once, she made a boy come out of his house and kiss her under the streetlight. It was her first kiss. She thinks it was probably his, too. She never told him and she never, ever will.
Holly Black
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
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
Holly Black
If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge. We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth. Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.
Holly Black
whatever you love, that is your weakness
Holly Black
You better get over here with my car,” Grandad says. “Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it.” “Sorry,” I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. “Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I’d like to see.
Holly Black
Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.
Holly Black
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
Holly Black