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181 " You really do want me,” I say, close enough to feel the warmth of hisbreath as it hitches. “And you hate it. "
― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
182 " It turns out birds can't really buy pizza, even if they're enchanted. "
183 " beneath his heavy wool cloak. He does not turn when I "
184 " You're like a story that hasn't happened yet. "
185 " One doesn't have to lie to deceive. "
186 " He leans in and closes his eyes. ¨Most of all, i hate you because i think of you. Often. Its disgusting, and I cant stop.¨ I am Shocked into silence.”page 307 "
187 " I can feel the moment he gives in and gives up, pulling me to him despite the threat of the knife. He kisses me hard, with a kind of devouring desperation, fingers digging into my hair. Our mouths slide together, teeth over lips over tongues. Desire hits me like a kick to the stomach. Its like fighting, except what we´re for is to crawl inside each other´s skin.page 309 "
188 " I cannot seem to contort myself back into the shape of a dutiful child. I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone. "
189 " The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. Once, I was content to hope for knighthood and the power to force Cardan and his friends to leave me alone. All I wanted was to find some place to fit in here in Faerie. Now I wonder what it would be like to choose the next king. "
190 " We slept on mattresses stuffed with the soft seed-heads of dandelions. "
191 " Princess Elowyn whirls at the center of a circle of Larks. Her skin is a glittering gold, her hair the deep green of ivy. Beside her, a human boy plays the fiddle. Two more mortals accompany him less skillfully, but more joyfully, on ukuleles. "
192 " I consider mentioning her last ill-fated decision—the one about having fun at the revel— "
193 " The knife is my hand is useless. I throw it at the desk, barely registering as the point sinks into the wood. He pulls back from me at the sound, startled. His mouth is pink, his eyes dark. He sees the knife and barks out a startled laugh.page 309 "
194 " I don’t desire to do as well in the tournament as one of the fey. I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them. "
195 " You’ll know you’re really one of us when you get your name "
196 " I am hungry. I realize, but I feel too sick to eat. Is this what it is to be brokenhearted? I am not sure it is Locke I am sick over, so much as the world the way it was before the coronation began. But if I could undo the passing of the days, why not unwind them to before I killed Valerian, why not unwind them until my parents are alive, why not unwind them all the way to the beginning? "
197 " El verdadero poder no se concede, y tampoco se puede arrebatar "
198 " wolves always come "
199 " I don't mind being one-handed,but if you're going to restrain both of my hands , then you'll have to pour wine directly into my mouth "
200 " I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him"? "