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130507b
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Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.
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jude
lust
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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0a4a26b
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Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.
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jude
madoc
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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d0144d6
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Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.
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locke
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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5fc3b7b
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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.
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holly-black
jude
lust
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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610b9c9
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I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.
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jude
love
love-quotes
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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a6f8feb
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He's flint, you're tinder.
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flame
jude
love-story
lust
power
taryn
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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4b27f88
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Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has.
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holly-black
jude
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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3a705b7
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She's looking around the forest, as though if she can prove it isn't magic, then nothing else is, either. Which is stupid. All forests are magic.
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the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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9ab5bb3
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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.
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holly-black
jude-duarte
prince-cardan
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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0382b66
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The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.
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jude-duarte
prince-cardan
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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5c80229
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Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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f613112
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"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."
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the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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8e3ecfd
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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.
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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bbd0c84
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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.
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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43f547f
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You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it.
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jude-duarte
prince-cardan
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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f32ba0e
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"You think I don't deserve him," I say to Cardan. He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. "Oh no, I think you're perfect for each other."
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fair-folk
fantasy
holly-black
jude
tcp
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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8b92b6d
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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.
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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a9f4613
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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.
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jude-duarte
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |
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34293bc
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You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die. He's wrong about me. I am going to make my mayfly life count for something. I won't be afraid of him or of p=Prince Dain's censure. If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. -Pg. 210
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inspirational
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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98a1f8d
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"Get down here before you're recognized." "Playing hide-and-seek under the table? Crouching in the dirt? Typical of your kind, but far beneath my dignity." He laughs unsteadily, like he expects I am going to laugh, too. I don't. I ball up my fist and punch him in the stomach, right where I know it will hurt. He staggers to his knees. The goblet drops to the dirt, making a hollow clanking sound. "Ow!" he shouts, and lets me tug him under the table."
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jude
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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f19d0f8
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Nice things don't happen in storybooks,' Taryn says. 'Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.
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fantasy-young-adult
holly-black
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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efa1f5e
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"Go ahead. Insult me." His eyebrows go up. "I don't take commands from mortals," he says with his customary cruel smile."
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holly-black
jude-duarte
prince-cardan
the-cruel-prince
the-folk-of-the-air
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Holly Black |