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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5) QUOTES

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5) QUOTES

1 " You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love? "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

2 " You didn’t hear the story I told,” he goes on. “A shame. It featured a handsome boy with a heart of stone and a natural aptitude for villainy. Everything you could like. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

3 " You didn’t get what you deserved, but you don’t have to live inside that one story forever. No one’s heart has to remain stone. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

4 " It turned out that Cardan didn't have a heart of stone after all. As he removed his shirt and sank to his knees, as he fisted his hands and tried not to cry out when the strap fell, he burned with hatred. Hatred for Dain; for his father; for all his siblings who didn't take him on and the one who did; for his mother, who spat at his feet as she was led away; for stupid, disgusting mortals; for all of Elfhame and everyone in it. Hate that was so bright and hot that it was the first thing that truly warmed him. Hate that felt so good that he welcomed being consumed by it. Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

5 " The Grand General would mount your head on a wall,” Nicasia informed him, patting his cheek.

“A very fine head,” he informed her with a wicked grin. “Suitable for mounting. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

6 " I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

7 " The next time you want to make a point,' Jude says, 'I beg you not to make it so dramatically.'
His shoulder hurts, and she may be right about the iron poisoning. He certainly feels as though his head is swimming. But he smiles up at the trees, the looping electrical lines, the streaks of clouds.
'So long as you're begging,' he says. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

8 " Villains were wonderful. They got to be cruel and selfish, to preen in front of mirrors and poison apples, and trap girls on mountains of glass. They indulged all their worst impulses, revenged themselves for the least offense, and took every last thing they wanted. And sure, they wound up in barrels studded with nails, or dancing in iron shoes heated by fire, not just dead, but disgraced and screaming. But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

9 " Playing the villain was the only thing he’d ever really excelled at. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

10 " Cardan stands, too. 'Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here's one. Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

11 " Choose a future, Balekin had commanded him when he’d first brought Cardan to Hollow Hall. But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. Choose one way and a monster rends your flesh. Choose another and your heart turns to stone, or fire, or glass. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

12 " Some might think of him as a strong draught, burning the back of one’s throat, but invigorating all the same. You might beg to differ. So long as you’re begging, he doesn’t mind a bit. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

13 " You can't eat some of a dumpling and put it back,' Oak insists. 'That's revolting.'
Cardan considers that villainy takes many forms, and he is good at all of them. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

14 " Cardan ought to have been the boy with the heart of stone in Aslog’s story, but somehow he had let his heart turn to glass. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

15 " Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

16 " Having a heart is terrible, but you still need one anyway. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

17 " Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

18 " A heart of stone can still be broken. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

19 " But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)

20 " Boys change. And so do stories. "

― Holly Black , How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (The Folk of the Air, #3.5)