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#1

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: fighting, hurting, pain

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#2

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#3

“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: jude

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#4

“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: jude, madoc

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#5

“He's flint, you're tinder.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: cardan, flame, jude, love-story, lust, power, taryn, the-cruel-prince

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#6

“But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#7

“I am tired of caring,” I say. “Why should I?”

“Because they could kill you!”

“They better,” I say to her. “Because anything less than that isn’t going to work.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#8

“No matter how careful I am, eventually I’ll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#9

“You have only seen the least of what I can do.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: dangerous, dark, elfham, enemies, faerie, jude, mysterious, prince-cardan

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#10

“And yet, I don’t regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#11

“What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I’m not?”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#12

“I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: holly-black, jude-duarte, the-cruel-prince, the-folk-of-the-air

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#13

“We all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#14

“I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven’t been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I’ve been fighting my own shadow.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#15

“I thought I was playing the game of pissing off people who hated me already and eating the consequences.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#16

“Little did Prince Dain know that my real skill lies in pissing people off.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#17

“Our promises don’t matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#18

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#19

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi

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#20

“It's shocking," he says, as though he's giving me some great compliment. "I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: holly-black, the-cruel-prince, the-folk-of-the-air

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#21

“Mortals are fragile," I say.
"Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break."
Which is ridiculous, as hurt as I am. I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness. Still, I like hearing it. I like everything he's saying all too well.
That boy is your weakness.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

tags: faeries, holly-black, the-cruel-prince, the-folk-of-the-air, the-queen-of-nothing

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#22

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
“No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
"I can't.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: hideous, hideous-beauty, love, romance

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#23

“But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline strike of lightning, like the moment when you've swum too far out in the sea and there is no going back, only cold black water closing over your head.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: cardan, holly-black, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince

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#24

“Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: epic-fantasy, fae

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#25

“Show your power by appearing powerless.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: epic-fantasy

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#26

“Power,' he said. 'Power is the ability to get what you want. Power is the ability to be the one making the decisions.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

tags: decisions, get-what-you-want, holly-black, madoc, power, the-folk-of-the-air, the-wicked-king

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#27

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

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#28

“If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

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#29

“A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

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#30

“Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I’d do it all again, without hesitation, because all I ever wanted you to do was eat me.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

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