Cora Ash > Cora 's Quotes

“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“He looks like the good boy he's never been.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Sam frowns at me, suddenly serious. "You know, I thought--for most of the first year we lived together--that you were going to kill me."

That makes me nearly spit out beer, I laugh so hard.

"No, look--living with you, it's like knowing there's a loaded gun on the other side of the room. You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat."

That only makes me laugh harder.

"Shut up," he says. "You might do normal stuff, but a leopard can drink milk or fall off things like a house cat. It's obvious you're not--not like the rest of us. I'll look over at you, and you'll be flexing your claws, or I don't know, eating a freshly killed antelope."

"Oh," I say. It's a ridiculous metaphor, but the hilarity has gone out of me. I thought I did a good job of fitting in--maybe not perfect, but not as bad as Sam makes it sound.

"It's like Audrey," he says, stabbing the air with a finger clearly well on his way to inebriated and full of determination to make me understand his theory. "You acted like she went out with you because you did this good job of being a nice guy."

"I am a nice guy."

I try to be.

Sam snorts. "She liked you because you scared her. And then you scared her too much.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“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.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Gifts are very useful to con men. Gifts create a feeling of debt, an itchy anxiety that the recipient is eager to be rid of by repaying. So eager, in fact, that people will often overpay just to be relieved of it. A single spontaneously given cup of coffee can make a person feel obligated to sit through a lecture on a religion they don't care about. The gift of a tiny, wilted flower can make the recipient give to a charity they dislike. Gifts place such a heavy burden that even throwing away the gift doesn't remove the debt. Even if you hate coffee, even if you didn't want that flower, once you take it, you want to give something back. Most of all, you want to dismiss obligation.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Mutually assured destruction.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."
Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“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, Red Glove

“Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.”
― Jesse Eisenberg, Red Glove

“Mom" I say "Oh honey" she says "The doctor wants to see you to make sure you don't have the same thing that killed your brother. "
She turns to Ms.Logan who looks scandalized by the whole encounter. "These things can run in famalies" she confides.
"Your afraid I'm going to come down with a bad case of getting two in the chest?" I say "cause you might be right about that running in families. ”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I could probably fake setting someone on fire... After last year I figured I'd better be prepared. - Sam”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“I made you believe that you were what I wanted you to become.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Oh, yeah?" Chris says. "Maybe you should tell your friends that you're an emotion worker instead of hiding it. Do you think they'll listen to you then?"
...
"How could you do this to me?" - Daneca
"It's not my fault you're a liar." - Chris”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“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, Black Heart

“That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day, making the best choices we can.
The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart