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“A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings. She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.” (Black Heart Quotes)
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Barron’s stuck teaching me. It’s supposed to be just for a few months, until I graduate from Wallingford. Let’s see if we can stand each other that long.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“I can walk into someone’s house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it’s mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“If you don’t know why you’re apologizing, your apology probably sucks.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it’s not going to encourage anyone’s betterment.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Really it was a pretty good talk. About the best I could expect from my sociopath amnesiac jerk of an older brother.” (Black Heart Quotes)
Holly Black
Black Heart
“She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“Some promises aren’t worth keeping.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“That’s family for you. Can’t live with them; can’t murder them. Unless Barron rats me out to Yulikova. Then I really might.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“The more you love her, the crazier you get. My love was great. My crimes were greater.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“What other stuff do they teach you at federal agent school?” I ask. It shouldn’t bother me that he’s fitting in so well. So what if he’s faking it? Good for him. I guess what bothers me is him faking it better than I am.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“You can’t go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.”
Holly Black
Black Heart
