“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“You're awful.' He said it as though he was delighted. 'And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Oh, tell me the rest. I like tricks and snares. Even ones I was nearly caught in.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent. I don't care. I run into his arms.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“She's my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. "The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“What I want is him back, him standing beside me, him laughing at all this. I would settle for even his worst… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“We should have called truce, he'd said, brushing back his ink-black hair impatiently. We should have called truce long before this. But… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart if you must. Just… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“You think I don’t deserve him,” I say to Cardan. He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He continues looking at me in this strange way, as though he's never seen me before or as though he thought he'd… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Some might think of him as a strong draught, burning the back of one’s throat, but invigorating all the same. You might… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“If anyone can get me through tonight, it's him. He's good at putting those around him at ease, even when they ought… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I hate being unwell,' he says. 'You're not sick,' Jude tells him. 'You are recovering from being stabbed- or rather, throwing yourself… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“The High King makes a nonchalant gesture. 'Jude likes to suppose the worst of both her enemies and her allies. Her reward… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Jude and I had a misunderstanding,' Cardan says carefully. 'But we're not enemies. And I am not your enemy, either, Taryn.' 'You… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Jude never loved Locke.' My face feels hot, but my shame is an excellent cover to hide behind. 'She loved someone else.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Jude. You are in no mood for games, very well. I am in no mood for them, either. Let me write it… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He realizes he doesn't want to play this game, once so familiar to him. He has no interest in trading barbs. He… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Oh ho,' he says. 'My darling seneschal. Let us take a turn around the room.' He grabs me and pulls me toward… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Please,' she says, her head bent. 'Please. You must try to break the curse. I know that you are the queen by… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Come with me,' Cardan says again, drawing me away from the blood-soaked star chart and the others taking their lessons. 'I am… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Oak gave up his room so they could sleep there, and although the bed is small, Cardan cannot mind when he takes… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“You could still be lying,' says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. 'Try her.' 'Your pardon?' Cardan says, drawing himself up, and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“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… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“You didn't hear the story I told," he goes on. "A shame. It featured a handsome boy with a heart of stone… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Cardan had grown up in the palace, a wild thing to be cosseted by courtiers and scowled at by the High King.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I wish I could punch him in his smug face and show him how undeterred I am by his exile.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I recall that your hands were on her, but her eyes were on me,' Cardan returns.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Playing the villain was the only thing he’d ever really excelled at.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He's so beautiful, so perfectly, horribly, inhumanely beautiful that I can barely breathe.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“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… — Holly Black Copy Share
When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere. — Holly Black Copy Share
“Madoc makes a snorting sound, then turns to me. 'I am sure that Wren here wouldn't mind taking Lady Nore's castle and lands for… — Holly Black Copy Share
“No, I won't help you. No I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever… — Holly Black Copy Share
Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.'… — Holly Black Copy Share
“His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close… — Holly Black Copy Share
So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in… — Holly Black Copy Share
“I grab a chair. "I don't mean to pry," I say, "but we're in a hospital. You sure you're fine?" She sighs heavily. "No… — Holly Black Copy Share
Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is… — Holly Black Copy Share
“That was how she felt, right then. As if there was too much of her, as if her skin was tight with muchness. She… — Holly Black Copy Share
“It was a vow, a piece of a chant, their scripture, something they took so seriously that saying it aloud embarrassed them.” — Holly Black Copy Share
