“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
“The whole places looks straight out of a fairy tale, the kind where love is a simple thing, never the cause of… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“He's so beautiful, so perfectly, horribly, inhumanely beautiful that I can barely breathe.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“She's looking around the forest, as though if she can prove it isn't magic, then nothing else is, either. Which is stupid.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think about Cardan when I am lying there. I think about what it must have been like to grow up… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I start back, only to find the maze has changed itself around. The paths are not where they were before. Of course.… — 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
“...he kisses me, sweet and raw. 'I missed you,' I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Idly, I wonder what sort of execution Cardan might order. Maybe he'd strap me to some rocks and let the sea do… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.” — 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
“Wisdom is for the meek,' he returns. 'And it seldom helps them as much as they believe it will. After all, as… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“And I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try." "And?" she asks. "I didn't like it," he admits.… — 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
“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
“... all I want to do is walk in to his arms. I want to drown my worries in his embrace. I… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Cardan lies on the rug with one arm propping up his head and the other slung across Jude's waist. He understands everything… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“You were my guest until you drew your very fancy sword. Put it down and by my guest again.' 'Put it down?'… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Cardan puts up a hand. 'No, no, enough. It's all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end.' His… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I was a fool,' I say, because I might as well admit it. 'I gave up the bird in my hand for… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I don't feel calm at all. I am a maelstrom of emotions. All I want to do is scream.” — 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 Image
When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
