Holly Black | "I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."

"I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."

Holly Black, American Author

Eccentricity, Madness, Creativity, Uncertainty, Romance

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"I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."

"Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress."

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"I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."

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"Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment."

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"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."

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"I survive at the edge of friends circles."

Psychology

"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."

Aesthetics

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

Truth

"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."

Ambiguity

"That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did."

Remembrance

"She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered."

Consumption

"I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him."

Protection

"I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."

Eccentricity

"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

Desire

"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"

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"Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"I survive at the edge of friends circles."

Psychology

"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."

Aesthetics

"The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies."

Truth

"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."

Ambiguity

"That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did."

Remembrance

"She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered."

Consumption

"I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him."

Protection

"I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute."

Eccentricity

"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

Desire

"I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"

Safety