Belle Hunter

“Villains were wonderful. They got to be cruel and selfish, to preen in front of mirrors and poison apples, and trap girls on mountains of glass. They indulged all their worst impulses, revenged themselves for the least offense, and took every last thing they wanted. And sure, they wound up in barrels studded with nails, or dancing in iron shoes heated by fire, not just dead, but disgraced and screaming. But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“A fortress of books," Mirabella says. She imagines little Katharine stacking volumes to craft a careful, curving tower. And then reading her way out.”
― Kendare Blake, Five ​Dark Fates

“A queen once crowned," Luca says, "is crowned forever.”
― Kendare Blake, Two Dark Reigns

“My sweet nemesis , how glad I am that you returned”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing