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

“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

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

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“What, you egg?”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“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

“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

“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

“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”
― Holly Black