“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 gives me one of his most awful smiles. 'I suppose she'll have to be searched.' ... 'My husband was murdered,' I… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He's handsome, but that makes his horribleness worse, somehow. As though he's taken something nice and made it awful. Being the single… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“The parlour is as I remember it from Council meetings. It carries the scent of smoke and verbena and clover. Cardan himself… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I could warn Randalin that he ought to be afraid of the way that Cardan is looking at him. Cardan turns to… — 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
“Lady Asha, as the mother of a prince, found herself much in demand with the Court, if not the High King. Given… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Though I would not delight to see the straps sink into your skin, neither would I mourn.' 'Enough blustering,' he says. 'You've… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Cardan glances toward me, as though for help. When I am silent, he frowns, annoyed with both of us. 'Although I am… — 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
“Oh, tell me the rest. I like tricks and snares. Even ones I was nearly caught in.” — 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
“It's okay to want something that's going to hurt, I remind myself. I move toward him, so we are close enough to… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Cardan comes over, stepping on my star chart, kicking over the ink-pot with his silver-tipped boots, sending the blood spilling across the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I follow him behind the throne and off the dais, where a small door is set against the stone wall, half hidden… — 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
“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
“I will accompany you,' Cardan says, rising. I open my mouth to explain all the reasons that he can't go. The problem… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“We show her that I am no feckless High king.' 'And how do we do that?' I ask. 'With great difficulty,' he… — 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
“So did you murder Balekin?' Nihuar asks me, clearly able to put off her curiosity no longer. 'Yes,' I say. 'After he… — 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
“The hardest thing- the impossible thing- is to get past the memory of Cardan telling me he loved me. He said those… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
