Holly Black Quotes

I tell you that the new age has dawned, the age of holy anarchy.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

I unsettle all things.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

I fear that, tired of anarchy, you may hope at the end for a return of oppression and that you may welcome the yoke of the first fortunate adventurer who shows up, who, far from consolidating your destiny, will only prolong your servitude

A thirst for liberty seems to be the ruling passion not only of America but of the present age ... it must work anarchy and confusion.

They do not even believe in God any more and … want to turn everything upside down in the apparent beautiful name of freedom and equality.

It is then a very unseasonable time to plead law, when swords are in the hands of the vulgare, or to think to restrain them with fear of punishments when they look after liberty and shake off all government.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.