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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |