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“Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.” (The Darkest Part of the Forest Quotes)
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it’s gone. The door isn’t there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Changelings are fish you’re supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don’t quite fit anywhere.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“He was ruinously beautiful in the way that knives and scalpels can be beautiful”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I’ve loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I’m sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I’m ridiculous. I get that you think I’m hilarious. I know, I get that you’re mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know.” (The Darkest Part of the Forest Quotes)
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“If she’d known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“In general, her family wasn’t very good at talking about important stuff. And of all of them, she was the least good at it. When she tried, it felt like all the chains on all her imagined safes and trunks started rattling”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“It had a pale body and crept on all fours, with claws as long as one of her fingers.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“She loved him so much that it already hurt. It already felt like he’d broken her heart.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn’t fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
“You better have kissed him! You better have kissed him so hard that he just about choked on your tongue. And if not, you better go kiss him like that right now.”
Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest
