The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

by Holly Black

Maybe you thought I was too busy to take my revenge? Well, Locke, I want you to understand that for you, I will make time

the news that mermaids were real was going to come along with the news that mermaids were out to get us. I didn’t think “all at once” was the ideal way to hear any of that news.

“It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.”

If I die here in the woods because I wasn’t better prepared, because I was too distracted to bother to strap on my own stupid sword, I will be absolutely furious with myself.

“It’s funny, isn’t it, how I mocked you for your mortality when you’re certain to outlive me.”