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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1) QUOTES

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1) QUOTES

1 " If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

2 " Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

3 " What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

4 " If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

5 " I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

6 " I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

7 " Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

8 " 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. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

9 " Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

10 " That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

11 " But kissing Locke never felt the way that kissing Cardan does, like taking a dare to run over knives, like an adrenaline strike of lightning, like the moment when you've swum too far out in the sea and there is no going back, only cold black water closing over your head. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

12 " But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

13 " There’s always something left to lose. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

14 " I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

15 " He's flint, you're tinder. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

16 " Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

17 " There you are," Cardan says as I take my place beside him. "How has the night been going for you? Mine has been full of dull conversation about how my head is going to find itself on a spike. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

18 " I stand in front of my window and imagine myself a fearless knight, imagine myself a witch who hid her heart in her finger and then chopped her finger off. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

19 " Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it’s sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

20 " We don't need to be good. But let's try to be fair. "

― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)