Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes, but it hurts them too.

— Holly Black

Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red.

— Holly Black

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.

— Holly Black

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

— Holly Black

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 down inside.

— Holly Black

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

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

— Holly Black

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

— Holly Black