“The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns?
Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you?
Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way.
Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are on to something deep. You see only deep brown wavy hair and strong legs, well honed by years of Ultimate Frisbee. You see that book of T. S. Eliot poems held by the hand with the long, graceful fingers, and you never stop to think that it shouldn't take half a semester to read one book of poems... that maybe he is not so much reading as getting really high every morning and sleeping it off on the library steps, forcing the people who actually go to class to step or trip over him.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Then you remember that Jack--that's his name, the mac & cheese--plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.
A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and pushing her apart from the inside.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Gravity pulls harder on troubles than on anything else.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you?”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken. So pity the first people to reach puberty after a zombie apocalypse, who would have some truly heavy lifting in this department...You become whatever they fear the most. Now THAT'S evolution”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here.”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“Meu pai odeia The Who."
"Seu pai é um babaca”
― Holly Black, quote from Zombies Vs. Unicorns
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“For some reason, this is the moment I know I’m gonna be all right; that the hurt might never fade, and my heart might always long for a stubborn cowboy with squinty eyes, but I’ll make do. Sure as the sun will rise.”
― Erin Bowman, quote from Vengeance Road
“No? Not working for you, huh? Okay. How about, Simon –my love for you is brighter than all the stars in the sky. Now let’s go put some sour cream on the big burrito.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Dear Bridget, I Want You
“He’s a monster. I think of him as one of those pitiful things that are born in hospitals from time to time. They feed it, and keep it warm, but they don’t put it on the machines and it dies. Lecter is the same way in his head, but he looks normal and nobody could tell.”
― Thomas Harris, quote from Red Dragon:
“So often, we pretend we’ve made a decision, when what we’ve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.”
― Jen Sincero, quote from You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
“The rooster has a funny little paper hat over its head, like an ice-cream cone upside down, and my dad is pointing to it proudly and saying, ‘Stroke him. Go on, stroke him. Do anything you like to him. He won’t move an inch.’ The rooster starts scratching”
― Roald Dahl, quote from Danny: The Champion of the World
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