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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #3
    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #4
    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #5
    Holly Black
    “If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #6
    Holly Black
    “Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
    “No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
    "I can't.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #7
    Holly Black
    “Nice things don’t happen in storybooks,” Taryn says. “Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #8
    Holly Black
    “Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #9
    Holly Black
    “Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #10
    Holly Black
    “Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #11
    Holly Black
    “The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #12
    Holly Black
    “He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”

    I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”

    He grins up at me. “They missed.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #13
    Holly Black
    “Tell me again what you said at the revel,” he says, climbing over me, his body against mine.

    “What?” I can barely think.

    “That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.”

    “I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”

    He kisses me harder.

    “I hate you,” I breathe into his mouth. “I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #14
    Holly Black
    “Kill him before he makes you love him.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #15
    Holly Black
    “If he thought I was bad, I would be worse. If he thought I was cruel, I would be horrifying.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #17
    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #18
    Holly Black
    “I missed you," I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. "In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you."
    "My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    tags: love

  • #19
    Holly Black
    “This is my room,” he points out, affronted. “And that’s my wife.”

    “So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”

    “Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”

    “I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #20
    Holly Black
    “Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #21
    Holly Black
    “And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
    It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #22
    Holly Black
    “Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.” His gaze goes to me. “To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #23
    Holly Black
    “I raise a plastic glass. “To family.”
    “And Faerieland,” says Taryn, raising hers.
    “And pizza,” says Oak.
    “And stories,” says Heather.
    “And new beginnings,” says Vivi.
    Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. “And scheming great schemes.”
    To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #24
    Holly Black
    “Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #25
    Holly Black
    “A heart of stone can still be broken.”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #26
    Holly Black
    “You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #27
    Holly Black
    “You didn’t hear the story I told,” he goes on. “A shame. It featured a handsome boy with a heart of stone and a natural aptitude for villainy. Everything you could like.”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #28
    Holly Black
    “Boys change. And so do stories.”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #29
    Holly Black
    “The next time you want to make a point,' Jude says, 'I beg you not to make it so dramatically.'
    His shoulder hurts, and she may be right about the iron poisoning. He certainly feels as though his head is swimming. But he smiles up at the trees, the looping electrical lines, the streaks of clouds.
    'So long as you're begging,' he says.”
    Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

  • #30
    Victoria Aveyard
    “The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
    Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen



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