But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?
Holly BlackHis eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
Holly BlackI wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
Holly BlackHe must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
Holly Black