Quotes by "Holly Black"

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness

I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.

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.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.

“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.” ― The Cruel Prince