The Darkest Part of the Forest Quotes

“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.”
― Holly Black , The Darkest Part of the Forest

“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. Punish you for all your tricks. Anest of hair and gnawed bone. You are never, ever coming... home.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“And elsewhere in the woods, there is another party, one taking place inside a hollow hill, full of night-blooming flowers. There, a pale boy plays a fiddle with newly mended fingers while his sister dances with his best friend. There, a monster whirls about, branches waving in time with the music, There, a prince of the Folk takes up the mantle of king, embracing a changeling like a bother, and, with a human boy at his side, names a girl his champion.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.”
― holly black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her yellow dress. They loved him as they loved the Eleventh Doctor with his bow tie and his flippy hair and the Tenth Doctor with his mad laugh. They loved him as they loved lead singers of bands and actors in movies, loved him in such a way that their shared love brought them closer together.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I'm sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I'm ridiculous. I get that you think I'm hilarious. I know, I get that you're mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry,”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It’s easy to think you’re succeeding when you’re failing spectacularly.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin. It rested right on the ground, and in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Once, there was a girl who found a sword in the woods. Once, there was a girl who made a bargain with the Folk. Once, there was a girl who’d been a knight in the service of a monster. Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself. Once, there was a girl… Hazel”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“There don't have to be first dates and second dates. We're not normal. We can do this anyway you want. A relationship can be whatever you want it to be. We get to make this part up. We get to tell our own story.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Stories like that were will-o'-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it’s gone. The door isn’t there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest