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21 " He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him. "
― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
22 " No matter how careful I am, eventually I’ll make another misstep. I am weak. I am fragile. I am mortal. "
23 " Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has. "
24 " This is absurd. This is awful. This isn’t how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit. "
25 " He stares at me as though I am a stranger, but I have never felt less like one. For the first time, we are both unmasked. "
26 " He leans in and closes his eyes. “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop. "
27 " Only idiots aren’t scared of things that are scary. "
28 " I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me. "
29 " Show your power by appearing powerless. "
30 " She's looking around the forest, as though if she can prove it isn't magic, then nothing else is, either. Which is stupid. All forests are magic. "
31 " I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can’t find a good enough story, I make one. "
32 " Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is. "
33 " You have only seen the least of what I can do. "
34 " The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. "
35 " And yet, I don’t regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall. "
36 " Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties. Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights. Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious. "
37 " Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear. "
38 " It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time. "
39 " It's shocking," he says, as though he's giving me some great compliment. "I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again. "
40 " Cardan’s gaze catches mine, and I can’t help the evil smile that pulls up the corners of my mouth. His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day. "