Ironside Quotes

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“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. ”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“whatever you love, that is your weakness”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield. ”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court."
"Well, I'm not, he dumped me."
"You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court."
"Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“I swear to fucking God, I will spray you again,”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin"

"Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“He closed his eyes. 'Don't,' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“The flavor of that blood stayed with him through the long years of his service (...) by then he could no longer remember whose blood it was, only that he had grown used to the taste.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“Kaye groaned. "You really are a terrible boyfriend, you know that?"
He nodded. "A surfeit of ballads makes for odd ideas about romance.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“He knew about cures and poultices and the medicinal value of kisses.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“Kaye wondered if everyone felt like there was a monster underneath their skin.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“Let our King be made from ice. He wished it too, wished for the ice that encased the branches out on the hill to freeze his heart.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“Corny nodded, but when he moved to put the key in the ignition, Luis's hand stopped him. When he turned, their mouths met.
"I'm sorry... that I've been," Luis said in between kisses,"distracted... by everything. Is it morbid... that I'm talking...?"
Corny murmured something that he hoped sounded like agreement as Luis's fingers dug into his hips, pushing him up so they could crush their bodies closer together.”
― holly black, Ironside

“Just because I am to protect you does not give you governance over me.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“He had known only two rulers, both great and neither good. He did not know how to be any kind of King nor how to win, other than to be even more ruthless than they.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself.” He paused. “The only thing I want.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“A surfeit of ballads makes for odd ideas about romance.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“Human girls cry when they're sad and laugh when they're happy. They have a single fixed shape rather than shifting with their whims like windblown smoke. They have their own parents, whom they love. They don't go around stealing other girls' mothers. At least that's what Kaye thought human girls were like. She wouldn't really know. After all, she wasn't human.”
― Holly Black, Ironside