Vivi Quotes

“She turned to me, head tilted, her expression pure confusion. As though I had no reason to be afraid of a broken heart. She had no idea how dangerous a broken heart could be.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Do you believe, as I do, that our souls spoke, long before our lips ever got a chance to?”
― Sayed H Fatimi

“Madoc would be so proud- his little girl, remembering all her training,' she says. 'Starving off the terrifying possibility of romance.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Love is a noble cause,' Vivi reminded her. 'How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“The first thing I noticed about her was that she had a smear of blue ink on her nose,' Vivi said. 'The second thing I noticed were her eyes, the colour of darkest amber. When she spoke, I was afraid she was talking to someone else.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“I've learnt of deceit, betrayed by my own smile, that ceases to hide, as her name resonates through the empty confines where rationality once resided, in the presence of eyes so deep; the oceans seem shallow, and lips red like summer evening strawberries before a sunset. My body conveys a message, my brain has no time to articulate the same, my heart won this race, pacing.”
― Sayed H Fatimi

“Those eyes show me glimpses of a beautiful soul. She feels so familiar, so intimate, I've waited an eternity to discover that mine was incomplete; without hers, completely lost in that gaze, so lost without the drowning stare of those ocean eyes, I've found purpose in sinking, in falling.”
― Sayed H Fatimi

“Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us,' Vivi said, 'than to be mad at the people who deserve it.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“I squeeze his arm as Heather sticks the food in the oven. “Of course she will. Think of being here with Vivi as an apprenticeship. You learn what you need to know, and then you come home.”

“How will I know when I’ve learned it, since I don’t know it now?” he asks.

The question sounds like a riddle. “Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one,” I answer finally. Vivi looks over, as though she’s overheard. Her expression is thoughtful.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“It was those eyes of hers, when I looked into them, they spoke to me, they showed me history and hope; the kindness that only pain knows how to nurture, and joy, those eyes were unforgiving in their determination, and without knowing when or how, I was hopelessly, endlessly, in love.”
― Sayed H Fatimi

“You did a brave thing. Be glad of that. Not everyone can be brave. I'm not always.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Taryn is beautiful in her heavily embroidered dress, and Vivi radiant in soft violet grey with artfully sewn moths seeming to fly from her shoulder across her chest to gather in another group on one side of her waist. I realise how rarely I've seen her in truly splendid clothes. Her hair is up, and my earrings glitter in her lightly furred ears. Her cat eyes gleam in the half light, twin to Madoc's. For once, that makes me smile.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“What are you going to tell her?'

'That I'll do whatever she wants,' my sister says, an extravagant vow for a mortal and a downright terrifying vow from someone who would be bound to that promise.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing