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

“If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It's you I love. I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well tha I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.''
''You probably guessed as much. But just in case you didn't.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I'm not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Do not touch her. She's my wife, the rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Jude,
Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me.
I urge you: Come be angry at a nearer distance.
Cardan”
― Holly Black, Cartas de Cardan a Jude

“Jude,
You are in no mood for games. Very well. I am in no mood for them, either.
Let me write it outright: You are pardoned. I revoke your banishment. I rescind my words. Come home.
Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.
Just come home.
Cardan”
― Holly Black, Cartas de Cardan a Jude

“Jude,
Not even responding to my missives is ridiculous and beneath you and I hate it.
Cardan”
― Holly Black, Cartas de Cardan a Jude

“Jude,
You are perhaps only being overcautions, but I am writing to inform you that all is settled between the Undersea and Elfhame. The treaties are signed in sea-foam and blood.
Expectantly,
Cardan”
― Holly Black, Cartas de Cardan a Jude

“To the High Queen of Elfhame,
Above me is the same silvery moon that shines down on you.
Looking at it makes me recall the glint of your blade pressed against my throat and other romantic moments.
I do not know what keeps you from returning to the High Court-whether it is vexation with me, or whether, having spent time in the mortal world, you have come to belive that a life free of the Folk is better than one ruling over them.
In my most wretched hours, I belive you will never come back.
Why would you, save for your ambition? You have always known exactly what I am and seen all my failings, all my weaknesses and scars. I flattered myself that at moments you had feelings for me other than contempt, but even were that true, they would make but a thin grutel beside the feast of your other, greater desires.
And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the Undersea.
It was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.
Cardan”
― Holly Black, Cartas de Cardan a Jude

“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 cannot," he says, then frowns.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“It's you I love," he says. "I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Tell me again what you said at the revel," he says, climbing over me, his body against mine.

"What?" I can barely think.

"That you hate me," he says, his voice hoarse. "Tell me that you hate me."

"I hate you," I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. "I hate you. I hate you. I hate you."

He kisses me harder.

"I hate you," I breathe into his mouth. "I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I missed you," I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. "In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you."

"My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned." He pulls my body against his, cradling my head against his chest. We are still lying on the floor, although a perfectly good bed is right next to us.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“What was it like?" I ask. "Being a serpent."

He hesitates. "It was like being trapped in the dark," he says. "I was alone, and my instinct was to lash out. I was perhaps not entirely an animal, but neither was I myself. I could not reason. There was only feelings--hatred and terror and the desire to destroy."

I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. "And you." He looks at me, his lips curving in something that's not quite a smile; it's more and less than that. "I knew little else, but I always knew you."

And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“We're all monsters in the end. At least mine lives in the light.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I feel like my life keeps happening to me, rather than me living it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Granted, she didn't want to become evil, but when you spend most of your life trying to see the sun, you begin to wish for rain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“It was a hard lesson to learn that sometimes it was better to remain lonely than to waste companionship and energy on someone undeserving.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“There is so much that can be fixed by honesty, if you're brave enough to use it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Attractive murderers were always good kissers; she was pretty sure she’d heard that expression before.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“If life was built on regrets, we’d have monuments the size of giants.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“You're not all bad, are you?"

He looked offended. "How dare you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“To the ones who don’t run with the popular crowd, the ones who get caught reading under their desks, the ones who feel like they never get invited, included, or represented. Get your leathers. We have dragons to ride.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Xaden tilts his head, studying the king. “Violet.” My heart skips into double time. “My loyalty is to Violet first above everything, everyone else,”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Do. You. Still. Love. Me?” I enunciate every word and lean right into his space just to prove that I’m not intimidated by him. He cups the back of my neck and pulls me within inches of his face—close enough to kiss. “I could reach the rank of Maven, lead armies of dark wielders against everyone we care for, and watch every vein in my body turn red as I channel all the power in the Continent, and I would still love you. What I did doesn’t change that. I’m not sure anything can.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“And he’s not my boyfriend.” Rhi snorts and Ridoc offers me a sarcastic thumbs-up. “Agreed,” Xaden says. “That’s far too casual a term for what we are.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm