Best The Iron Trial Quotes by Holly Black

"Magic runs in families. Not everyone in a family will necessarily have it, but it looks like you might."

"Mages draw on the elements — earth, air, water, fire, and even the void, which is the source of the most powerful and terrible magic of all, chaos magic."

"The magicians will tempt you with pretty illusions and elaborate lies. Don’t be drawn in."

"The Enemy was a great mage — maybe even the best — but he went crazy. He wanted to live forever and make the dead walk again."

"Fire wants to burn, water wants to flow, air wants to rise, earth wants to bind, chaos wants to devour."

"You have a great power, and without training, that power is dangerous."

"The Enemy of Death. He’s the last of the Makaris and the reason for the Third War."

"Chaos-ridden creatures are the Enemy’s servants. They’ve got a piece of the void in them and it makes them smarter than other animals, but bloodthirsty and insane."

"Those of you who are legacies know the dangers untrained mages pose to themselves and others."

"You are about to enter the halls of the Magisterium. For some of you, this may be the fulfillment of a dream."

"I don’t need to run. Here, they’ll teach you how to fight. And trust me, you’re going to be good at it."

But I thought you were mad?"
"No, you didn’t say anything to me for three whole weeks. You guys were the ones who were mad.

I can’t do this. We didn’t practice."
"You know what you need to know.

"I had another sister. She became one of those things I was telling you about — a human elemental."

"Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It’ll cost you everything."

"I made a mistake with a student. A mistake that had grave consequences. Taking you on is my penance."

"I love you and I am sorry for everything that happened. Keep your chin up at school."

"Then it was Call’s turn. He reached for his tray skeptically, not sure what he would find. But it really did hold his favorite dinner."

What if you get ranch dressing on your spaghetti?"
"Then it will be even more delicious.

"If only the Magisterium had telephones."

"His father had written that he wasn’t angry, and the words he picked didn’t sound angry either, but he sounded something else. Sad. Cold, maybe. Distant."

"I never thought that you would be unskilled, Call."

"Whatever fun you’re having —" Call’s father said the word fun like it was poisonous.

"You don’t think I’d let you wander the depths of the Magisterium unwatched, do you?"

"He keeps scaring me, calling up illusions of monsters and elementals while I’m alone in the dark and I … I want to get better. I want to be a better mage, but I just … I can’t."

You shouldn’t let it bother you," Drew said earnestly. "That’s just babble. It doesn’t mean anything.

"I want to do the right thing. I don’t care if we have to lie or cheat or cut corners or break rules to do it."

"We need to talk about the wristband, though."

"All these years, the mages have waited for a Makar, but they’re not the only ones. We were waiting, too."

"If there’s something wrong with me, I want Alastair to keep it to himself."

"You don’t understand. You don’t know what you are."

"We are going to have to tell them about Havoc. There’s no other way to explain what happened."

"I don’t want to be the person who just gets things done. I want to do the right thing."

"This sure doesn’t look like pony school to me."

"You think Aaron’s your friend. You think everything they told you in the Magisterium is true. It’s not."

"You’re not leaving!" Drew shouted, racing forward to press his hand against the glass container.

"I can’t!" Call pointed with Miri. "The chaos elemental, and Drew, are between him and the door."

"That’s what they’ve been looking for all this time. Your destruction. That’s what Aaron is."

"Go on, you coward," screamed Drew, kicking at it.

"My name is Callum Hunt," he said. "You are Constantine Madden."

"Your mother?" sneered Master Joseph. "Sarah Hunt was only the mother of the shell that contains you."

"I remember that when you first came to the Magisterium, you asked me several times if you could talk to Alastair," Master Rufus said.

"I see nothing amusing about it." Master Joseph didn’t change expression.

"I am going to tell everyone at the Magisterium that my father was right, and that they should have listened to him."

"You are apprentices. That means you learn what you’re ready to learn and you pass through the gates when you’re ready, not after and certainly not before."