J.J. Wright > J.J.'s Quotes

“A twig snaps. I whirl around just in time to see a flash in the shadows of the forest. Or is it? My heart rate quickens. Maybe it’s my mind playing tricks–for real this time and not because everyone is telling me that's what’s happening.”
― J.J. Wright, The Fang and the Flower

“I could warn Randalin that he ought to be afraid of the way that Cardan is looking at him.

Cardan turns to me, and some of the heat of his anger is still in his eyes. 'Jude, would you give me and the councilor a moment alone? I have a few things I would like to urge him to consider. And Grima Mog has brought you soup.'

'I don't need anyone to help me tell Randalin that this is my home and my land and that I am going nowhere and relinquishing nothing.'

'And yet,' Cardan says, clamping his hand on the back of the councilor's throat, 'there are still some things I would say to him.'

Randalin allows Cardan to hustle him into one of the other royal parlours. Cardan's voice goes low enough for me to not make out the words, but the silky menace of his tone is unmistakable.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for you honour.' His gaze goes to me. 'To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen's hospitality. The hospitality of knives.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Cardan stands over me. His jacket is thrown on a nearby chair, the velvet soaked through with some dark substance. His white sleeves are rolled up, and he's washing my hands with a wet cloth. Getting the blood off them.

I try to speak, but my mouth feels like it is full of honey. I slide back into the syrupy dark.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Order and rules bring me peace. Control is my love language. It’s why I love Tory. He’ll never love me back. He tolerates my flirting and joking. It’s easy. Predictable. Dependable. In fact, him being overtly nice to me would be the most shocking thing he could do.”
― J.J. Wright

“His eyes finally meet mine and they bore through my entire existence. I feel naked. Like I'm sitting here in the middle of the public library, without a stitch of clothing. Like every question has removed another layer and I'm just sinew, muscle, bone, and marrow, laid bare in front of him.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“She draws roses on thorny vines and hearts that don't know what's good for them.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Love can be icy. Love can be a warm whisper. Sometimes it is both simultaneously.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Tory is so beautiful that it violently smacks you in the face every single time you look at him. The kind of beautiful that makes people squirm with discomfort.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“He's rugged, yet angelic. Poetic, yet blasphemous. Unkempt, yet meticulous.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Looking at Tory is like looking at the sun. Life-giving, yet utterly destructive.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“But he is mine. Not mine in the true, real sense of the word. Mine in the purely delusional sense.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“She thinks she's not the prettiest girl in school. I think that's pretty stupid.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Watching Tory is like watching poetry on ice. He moves with graceful precision that maintains a certain level of brutality.”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts

“Aaron Warner doesn’t like cussing so neither do I,”
― J.J. Wright, Icing Hearts