"Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty."

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Source : Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.144, Hachette UK

Holly Black

#Beauty Quotes #Clever Quotes #Devil Quotes

“Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.”
“The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.”
“It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.”
“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadnâ€™t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think weâ€™ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.”
“Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?”
“So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.”
“The painting has a life of its own”
“Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.”

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