Holly Black, Red Glove Quotes

Mutually assured destruction.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

Magic gives you a lot of choices, " Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

If you keep it, " Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night, " he said. "Midnight is for regrets.