I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madnes...
HOLLY BLACK Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
HOLLY BLACK I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
HOLLY BLACK I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.
HOLLY BLACK I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our wo...
HOLLY BLACK They wore their strange beauty like war paint.
HOLLY BLACK If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
HOLLY BLACK So you'll teach me?" Val asked.

Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you de...
HOLLY BLACK I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' ap...
HOLLY BLACK She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of w...
HOLLY BLACK Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
HOLLY BLACK Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They ...
HOLLY BLACK There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to wr...
HOLLY BLACK She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a reall...
HOLLY BLACK People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrail...
HOLLY BLACK I promise I will repay you.”
“Oh yeah?” she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet an...
HOLLY BLACK We got it." Val grinned and lifted her fist. "Wonder twin powers activate!"
Ruth grinned back,...
HOLLY BLACK I would remain nearer you for what time there is."

"Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted....
HOLLY BLACK No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court."
"Well, I'm not, he dumped me." HOLLY BLACK We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from...
HOLLY BLACK You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't se...
HOLLY BLACK Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem...
HOLLY BLACK I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I ha...
HOLLY BLACK I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise b...
HOLLY BLACK 'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated read...
HOLLY BLACK I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I hav...
HOLLY BLACK He gave her a smile that wasn’t really a smile at all. “Eh, it wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’...
HOLLY BLACK One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced eac...
HOLLY BLACK Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love....
HOLLY BLACK They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love prince...
HOLLY BLACK Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.
HOLLY BLACK I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a light...
HOLLY BLACK Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites...
HOLLY BLACK Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite prou...
HOLLY BLACK There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. ...
HOLLY BLACK The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
HOLLY BLACK Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
HOLLY BLACK In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their...
HOLLY BLACK A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."
No, Mabry," Ra...
HOLLY BLACK When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.
HOLLY BLACK They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I ge...
HOLLY BLACK I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
HOLLY BLACK Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbi...
HOLLY BLACK As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with t...
HOLLY BLACK The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember ...
HOLLY BLACK I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
HOLLY BLACK Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
HOLLY BLACK Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty ...
HOLLY BLACK Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.'
The old man lau...
HOLLY BLACK This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his...
HOLLY BLACK I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the f...
HOLLY BLACK The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
HOLLY BLACK Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."
I slug down the last of the coffee and get u...
HOLLY BLACK Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. ...
HOLLY BLACK I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and cha...
HOLLY BLACK Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
HOLLY BLACK Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater t...
HOLLY BLACK Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t ...
HOLLY BLACK Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.
HOLLY BLACK This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
HOLLY BLACK Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying
HOLLY BLACK Every hero is the villain of his own story.
HOLLY BLACK She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a...
HOLLY BLACK What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
HOLLY BLACK Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were s...
HOLLY BLACK I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash...
HOLLY BLACK I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope t...
HOLLY BLACK He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he wa...
HOLLY BLACK She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away ...
HOLLY BLACK Some promises aren’t worth keeping.
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 ...
HOLLY BLACK What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural cre...
HOLLY BLACK Adventuring turned out to be boring. Zach thought back to all the fantasy books he'd read where a te...
HOLLY BLACK He looks like the good boy he's never been.
HOLLY BLACK Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
HOLLY BLACK We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a ...
HOLLY BLACK I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of i...
HOLLY BLACK One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.
HOLLY BLACK Being
infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. I...
HOLLY BLACK Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle h...
HOLLY BLACK Every plan is a house of cards.
HOLLY BLACK Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming,...
HOLLY BLACK But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.

HOLLY BLACK So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you ...
HOLLY BLACK He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke.
HOLLY BLACK If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
HOLLY BLACK Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
HOLLY BLACK Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. N...
HOLLY BLACK Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake...
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 be...
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 You are more dangerous than daybreak.
HOLLY BLACK I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming ...
HOLLY BLACK Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
HOLLY BLACK If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.
HOLLY BLACK Death’s favorites don’t die.
HOLLY BLACK Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.
HOLLY BLACK She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the s...
HOLLY BLACK You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it...
HOLLY BLACK I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.
HOLLY BLACK I survive at the edge of friends circles.
HOLLY BLACK She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hade...
HOLLY BLACK It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and...
HOLLY BLACK Everything smelled wet and feral like it did before a thunderstorm, and she wanted to run, swift and...
HOLLY BLACK Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was goin...
HOLLY BLACK Her mother bent close, the smell of whiskey and beer and sweat as familiar as any perfume to Kaye.
HOLLY BLACK I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was someth...
HOLLY BLACK Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
HOLLY BLACK Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured th...
HOLLY BLACK There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance b...
HOLLY BLACK She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguel...
HOLLY BLACK As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into...
HOLLY BLACK A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder o...
HOLLY BLACK I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their m...
HOLLY BLACK Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than o...
HOLLY BLACK It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?"
"Why bother with tha...
HOLLY BLACK The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certai...
HOLLY BLACK So, what did you think of the Unseelie Court?"

A slow, wicked smile spread on his face. "...
HOLLY BLACK It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head aga...
HOLLY BLACK You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't me...
HOLLY BLACK She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK There is something of yours I would like to return to you."
"What?"
He leaned across the d...
HOLLY BLACK Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye
HOLLY BLACK So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced...
HOLLY BLACK You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
HOLLY BLACK Kaye: You know what the sun looks like?
Janet: No, What?
Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in ...
HOLLY BLACK Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.
HOLLY BLACK Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there&...
HOLLY BLACK Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. ...
HOLLY BLACK But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries ...
HOLLY BLACK It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.
HOLLY BLACK We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know...
HOLLY BLACK If there was one thing he knew about himself, it was that he could take any good thing and make a me...
CASSANDRA CLARE HOLLY BLACK It was easy to rack up Evil Overlord points in prison.
CASSANDRA CLARE HOLLY BLACK The food of evil is so good.
CASSANDRA CLARE HOLLY BLACK Some people feel stronger in their 30s. I'm 34. I've noticed I do feel stronger now than whe...
HOLLY HOLM Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network mo...
HOLLY HUNTER If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatt...
HOLLY MADISON Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfo...
HOLLY MADISON 1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x

2. I ...
HOLLY SMALE So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I�...
HOLLY HOOD Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
BUDDY HOLLY I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pre...
HOLLY HUNTER I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
LAUREN HOLLY If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position ...
HOLLY LISLE Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of p...
HOLLY HOLM I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Mu...
HOLLY HOLM Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few su...
HOLLY MADISON People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international accla...
HOLLY HUNTER I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to pl...
HOLLY HUNTER If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge mo...
HOLLY NEAR I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? ...
HOLLY COMBS The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New ...
HOLLY HUNTER I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.
HOLLY MADISON I figured I got the prettiest, sweetest, smartest wife ever to be," he said softly.
JAN HOLLY What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've wr...
HOLLY SPRINK Mental illnesses grab you by the leg, screaming, and chow you down whole.They make you selfish. They...
HOLLY BOURNE I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of ce...
HOLLY MADISON Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that...
HOLLY MADISON I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress th...
HOLLY HUNTER I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a ...
HOLLY HUNTER Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.
HOLLY HOLM Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these ...
HOLLY MOSIER I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Ka...
HOLLY VALANCE I'm a curvy girl and that will never change.
HOLLY MADISON I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.
HOLLY MADISON It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, tha...
HOLLY HUNTER I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
BUDDY HOLLY Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
BUDDY HOLLY I'm not trying to stump anybody, ... It's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
BUDDY HOLLY We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes.
BUDDY HOLLY But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It...
BUDDY HOLLY Death is very often referred to as a good career move,
BUDDY HOLLY Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
BUDDY HOLLY This is one night that can never be repeated again, ... You'll never see all these people, all these...
BUDDY HOLLY If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they...
BUDDY HOLLY Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cro...
HOLLY HUNTER I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.
HOLLY HUNTER When Finley gets his vaccinations, it kills me, and you can't protect yourself from that. My hea...
HOLLY COMBS Technically, the recommendation is part of the governor's decision-making process and should remain ...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG She didn't ask for this. It was a public safety issue and she just wanted to eliminate any perceptio...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like usin...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG Something's got to move. The outcome becomes worse for the state the longer it's put off. This is th...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG It also puts everyone on elevated alert — that we have emergencies ...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should b...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in.
HOLLY ARMSTRONG She's been pretty clear that we need to find a solution and need to look at what the problem is, and...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very prou...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.
HOLLY ARMSTRONG Both my husband and I wanted a boy. I wasn't sure what I'd do with a daughter. What if she a...
HOLLY COMBS Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves...
HOLLY HUNTER Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role i...
HOLLY HUNTER There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real d...
HOLLY HUNTER We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dro...
HOLLY JOHNSON My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relations...
HOLLY SMALE Reason to move to New York: I don't to get left behind
HOLLY SMALE They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make ...
HOLLY SMALE Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it...
HOLLY SMALE Why do you always rescue me?" — "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fair...
HOLLY SMALE And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.
HOLLY SMALE