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41 " What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I’m not? "
― Holly Black , The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
42 " It’s disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions. "
43 " I thought I was playing the game of pissing off people who hated me already and eating the consequences. "
44 " Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag’s carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst. "
45 " Nicasia's wrong about me. 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. "
46 " When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court isn’t busy drinking poison, then it’s drinking bile. "
47 " Sharpen your heart. "
48 " I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven’t been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I’ve been fighting my own shadow. "
49 " In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television. "
50 " 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. "
51 " I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone. "
52 " Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it. "
53 " Three is an odd configuration of sisters. There’s always one on the outside. "
54 " Every day that I don’t beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don’t back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he’s throwing everything he’s got at someone as weak as I am and it’s not working. He’s going to take himself down. "
55 " We may not die from age, but we grow weary with it. "
56 " Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom "
57 " Prince Balekin smiles back as though their smiles could duel without the rest of them even being involved. "
58 " What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? "
59 " Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong? "
60 " You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it. "