jude-duarte

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9ab5bb3	Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.	holly-black jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
0382b66	The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.	jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
5c80229	Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.	jude-duarte the-cruel-prince	Holly Black
8e3ecfd	Nicasia's wrong about me. I don't desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.	jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
bbd0c84	Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.	jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
43f547f	You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it.	jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince	Holly Black
8b92b6d	What they don't realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by a man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.	jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
a9f4613	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.	jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
ea0a53b	"You put a curse on that girl over there," I tell him. "Fix her ." "She admired my ears," the boy says. "I was only giving her what she desired. A party favor." "That's what I am going to say after I gut you and use your entrails as streamers," I tell him. " --	jude-duarte the-wicked-king	Holly Black
efa1f5e	"Go ahead. Insult me." His eyebrows go up. "I don't take commands from mortals," he says with his customary cruel smile."	holly-black jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air	Holly Black
6470ec5	I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone--truly gone beneath the waves--I hated myself as I never have before.	jude-duarte wicked-king	Holly Black
9de4945	Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can	jude-duarte	Holly Black
b05a530	"I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back."	jude-duarte villians	Holly Black

9ab5bb3

Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.

holly-black jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

0382b66

The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.

jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

5c80229

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

jude-duarte the-cruel-prince

Holly Black

8e3ecfd

Nicasia's wrong about me. I don't desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.

jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

bbd0c84

Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

43f547f

You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it.

jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince

Holly Black

8b92b6d

What they don't realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here. I was raised by a man who murdered my parents, reared in a land of monsters. I live with that fear, let it settle into my bones, and ignore it. If I didn't pretend not to be scared, I would hide under my owl-down coverlets in Madoc's estate forever. I would lie there and scream until there was nothing left of me. I refuse to do that. I will not do that.

jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

a9f4613

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.

jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

ea0a53b

"You put a curse on that girl over there," I tell him. "Fix her ." "She admired my ears," the boy says. "I was only giving her what she desired. A party favor." "That's what I am going to say after I gut you and use your entrails as streamers," I tell him. " --

jude-duarte the-wicked-king

Holly Black

efa1f5e

"Go ahead. Insult me." His eyebrows go up. "I don't take commands from mortals," he says with his customary cruel smile."

holly-black jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air

Holly Black

6470ec5

I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone--truly gone beneath the waves--I hated myself as I never have before.

jude-duarte wicked-king

Holly Black

9de4945

Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can

jude-duarte

Holly Black

b05a530

"I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back."

jude-duarte villians

Holly Black