Holly Black Want Quotations

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

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.

So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

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.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.