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

by Holly Black

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness.

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“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”

“If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”

“Tell me that you hate me.” “I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress.

They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.