Quote

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

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
Criminal
Criminals
Honest
Hope

More quotes by Holly Black

Image
For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.
Holly Black
Image
I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria. But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense. All friendships are negotiations of power.
Holly Black
Image
Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.
Holly Black
Image
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
Holly Black
Image
One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
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
Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
Holly Black
Image
I need your help, says the tiny figure. Her voice is sad and soft and sounds like Lila's, but with an odd accent that might just be how cats sound when they talk.
Holly Black
Image
Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
Holly Black
Image
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
Image
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
Holly Black
Image
Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
Holly Black
Image
He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
Holly Black
Image
Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.
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
It's okay, he informs me. Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
Holly Black
Image
A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.
Holly Black
Image
Mutually assured destruction.
Holly Black
Image
It is my belief that books are living things.
Holly Black
Image
He looks like the good boy he's never been.
Holly Black