Holly Black
Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it’s a good technique.Collection: Glasses
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.Collection: People
It is my belief that books are living things.Collection: Book
He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.Collection: End Of The World
One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.Collection: Night
After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.Collection: Games
We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.Collection: Wind
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.Collection: Dream
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.Collection: Enemy
You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Long
But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?Collection: Believe
Every plan is a house of cards.Collection: House Of Cards
I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.Collection: Crush
I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.Collection: Book
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.Collection: Book
Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.Collection: Life
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.Collection: People
They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.Collection: Mistake
I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Dirty
So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.Collection: Hate
There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Good Day
Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.Collection: Queens
What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin" "Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?Collection: Thinking
You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.Collection: Games
She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Fighting
A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.Collection: Queens
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.Collection: Passion
I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.Collection: Cat
I like all the things that make you monstrous.Collection: Monstrous
Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real.Collection: Real
I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.Collection: Sorry
Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily. His skin felt hot, even through the cloth of her shirt, his touch was both soothing and electric. She leaned into him without thinking. His thighs parted, rough black cloth scratching against her jeans as she moved between his long legs. His eyes half-lidded as he pushed himself off the desk, their bodies sliding together, his hands still holding hers. Then, suddenly, he froze.Collection: Eye
There are dog people and cat people.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Kissing
There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.Collection: Party
It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.Collection: Dark
I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.Collection: Hurt
Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.Collection: Fall
You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.Collection: Cat
I don't lie," I lied.Collection: Lying
It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.Collection: Ideas
You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.Collection: People
You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.Collection: Pain
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.Collection: Spring
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.Collection: Fighting