Holly Black Want Quotations

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.