The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing Quotes

“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 Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“We have lived in our armor for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.”

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“I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?
One piece at a time.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“I have heard for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear”
― Holly Black, The Folk of the Air Trilogy

“come home and fight with me. come home and shout at me. come home and break my heart, if you must. just come home”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“I have, for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very much like the feeling of fear.”
― Holly Black, The Folk of the Air Trilogy

“If you're the sickness,I suppose you can't also be the cure”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“By you I am forever undone”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“come home and shout at me. come home and fight with me. come home and break my heart, if you must. just come home.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry,
I would hurt you back”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Fight your fight,” Let someone else worry about
theirs.”
-Grima Mog”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“It’s you I love. I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so we’ll that I could behave as though I didn’t have one. Even now, it’s a shabby, worm eaten, and scabrous thing. But it’s yours… you probably guessed as much… but just incase you didn’t”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Perhaps I cannot be glamoured, but that doesn't mean I cannot be broken." -The Wicked Prince”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Kiss me again. Kiss me until I'm sick of it.”
― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“This is my room," he points out, affronted. "And that's my wife."
"So you keep telling everyone,' the Bomb says. "But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don't think you want to watch that."
"Oh, I don't know," I say, "Maybe he'd like to hear me scream."
"I would," Cardan says, standing. "And perhaps one day I will." On the way out, his hands go to my hair. A light touch, barely there, and then gone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“I recall that your hands were on her but her eyes were on me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“I will make him proud of me. Everyone else, I will make very, very sorry.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Perhaps I am foolish, but I am no fool. You like something about me," he says, mischief lighting his face, making its planes more familiar.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“My chest hurts, looking at him. I feel like I can't breathe. Though he is in front of me, the pain of losing him hasn't faded.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Watch the blade, not the soldier. Steel never deceives.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Okay," I say, "I'll do it. I'll marry you." He gives me wicked grin. "I had no idea it would be such a sacrifice.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“I can be charming. I charmed you, didn’t I?”
He rolls his eyes. “Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Crawl to me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Turn pain into power”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“He looks up at me with his night - colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once.
"For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me."
I make a face at him.
"And what made you decide it wasn’t?"
He grins up at me.
"They missed.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“He doesn't look up as I walk around the desk to him. I place the tip of the blade against the bottom of his chin, as I did the day before in the hall, and I tilt his face toward mine. He shifts his gaze with obvious reluctance.

The horror and shame on his face look entirely too real. Suddenly, I am not so sure what to believe.

I lean toward him, close enough for a kiss. His eyes widen. The look in his face is some commingling of panic and desire. It is a heady feeling, having power over someone. Over Cardan, who I never thought had any feelings at all.

'You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it.' I change the angle of the knife, turning it so it's against his neck. He doesn't look nearly as alarmed by that as I might expect.

Not nearly as alarmed as when I bring my mouth to his.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Then I raise my blade, presenting it to my opponent. I salute her in the mirror.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Bez wątpienia elfowie odrobili lekcję już dawno temu. Nie muszą mamić ludzi, bo ludzie sami się mamią.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Let’s start with a love story.
Or maybe it’s another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Then Grima Mog is there on her stag, taking the weight of
his blade. Their weapons slam together, ringing with the force
of the impact. “First I am going to kill you,” she tells him.
“And then I am going to eat you.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“From behind a tree, Vivi steps into view. Beside her is
Taryn, wearing Nightfell on her hip. And with them, another person, who turns out not to be Heather at all.
Grima Mog, sword drawn, sits astride a ragwort pony”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing