Quotes by Holly Black

About Holly Black:

Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and a trilogy of Young Adult novels often called the Modern Tale of Faerie trilogy. Her 2013 novel Doll Bones was named a Newbery Medal honor book.
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People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

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She came out of sleep like a thunderclap—waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn’t remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.

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We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

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Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.

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He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. "See, I even brought some things to read aloud. I wasn't sure what you'd like, so there's a bit o...

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Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.

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Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.

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Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

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She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

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There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from a ride With the Lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger.

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We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep d...

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When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?

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When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.

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He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been a...

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He gave her a smile that wasn’t really a smile at all. “Eh, it wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’t have to study for the SATs or get a summer job or figure out my major. I can drink Elderflower wine all day, dance all through the night, and sleep ...

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They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her ye...

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You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.

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The only way to end grief was to go through it.

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There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.

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Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.

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Author Bio

  • NameHolly Black
  • DescriptionAmerican children's fiction writer
  • BornNovember 10, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist