The Darkest Part of the Forest Quotes

“Try not to get killed by some handsome, paranoid elf who thinks he’s stuck in a ballad. I’ll try not to flunk out of physics.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“What is that quote?” Hazel said, walking to him, too glad he’d come to object to the danger he’d put himself in. “The Lord protects fools, drunks, and dumbass ax wielders?”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Quick, make a wish. Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“It turned our that no matter how far you fall, there's always a lower place.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach. Once normal had been a heavy, smothering blanket she feared being trapped beneath. But now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Remember when . . . ? 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

“He shook his head without looking at her. “Did you know there are different names for different moons? This month it’s going to be the Hunter’s Moon, but March has the Worm Moon and the Crow Moon. May has the Milk Moon, July the Mead Moon. February has the Hunger Moon and late October the Blood Moon. Aren’t they lovely names? Aren’t they something, Hazel? Aren’t they warning enough?”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“She loved him so much that it already hurt. It already felt like he’d broken her heart.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“she could be more humiliated, it turned out that no matter how far you fall, there’s always a lower place.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I love you," Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all, face exultant. "I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Hazel had received a baby doll that, if you filled it with water, you could squeeze and make it pee, even though she’d wanted a sword like her brother’s.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Ben padded over and turned the knob. Jack was unlacing his boots while Hazel brushed the leaves out of her hair, her eyes red and a little puffy. They both froze.

“It’s just me,” Ben said.

“We weren’t—I mean, not really—” Jack started, making gestures toward the bed that Ben thought meant “I am not trying to dishonor your sister, although it is possible that I am hoping to have sex with her,” at the same time Hazel began apologizing for ditching Ben.

He held up his hand to stop them from talking. “I need one of you—ideally Hazel—to explain what’s actually been going on, and I need that to happen right now, starting with where you were last night.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“But if you don’t want to go with them, you’re going to have to lash yourself to the bed like sailors who lashed themselves to masts to avoid jumping into the sea with Sirens.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“The book turned out to be one she’d read before, where zombies chased around a brother-and-sister reporting team.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Go,” she said finally. “Be Jack Gordon. But mortality is a bitter draught.”
“And yet I would have the full measure,” he told her.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“She loved him so much that it already hurt. It already felt like he'd broken her heart.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Good." said Hazel. "Boy son the Internet lie." "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

“And I’m not afraid of your trying to figure out what it means to be your whole self,”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“long moment. Ben raised his eyebrows.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“loved him and he’s dead and gone and bones. I loved him and they took him away from me. Where is he? Where is he? Dead and gone and”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“There are many things I am forbidden from telling you, for I am bound by both promises and strictures. Three times I will warn you, and that’s all I am permitted, so heed me. Something even more dangerous than your prince walks in his shadow. Do not seek him out.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“It had a pale body and crept on all fours, with claws as long as one of her fingers.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Oh, you mean instead of grabbing you?” Ben flinched as though he’d been slapped.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Hazel began to list what she knew. She liked lists. They were comfortingly straightforward, even when they were full of crazy stuff.”
― 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. Even a girl who carries spiders outside instead of stepping on them, a girl who once fed a tiny fox kit with an eyedropper every two hours until wildlife rescue could come and pick it up—that same girl can kill and be ready to do it again. She can take her dead dog home and bury him and cry over his cooling and stiffening body, making promises as she digs a deep hole in the backyard. She can look at her brother and believe that together they’re a knight and a bard who battle evil, who might someday find and”
― 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.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“We know about your brother. He called and told us himself. Said to imagine Faerieland like an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. I told him it was more like an exclusive boarding school in hell.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest