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“I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Only idiots aren’t scared of things that are scary.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Show your power by appearing powerless.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“To whom it may concern: I’m not involved. Honest. Hugs, Becca.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Storm

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“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

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“So I am to sit here and feed you information,” Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. “And you’re to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward.”
I fix him with a look. “I can be charming. I charmed you, didn’t I?”
He rolls his eyes. “Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“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

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
“No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
"I can't.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“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

“I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“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

“If you ever let some girl paw you like that again, I’ll rip her arm off and beat you with it.”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“Illness and disability make people uncomfortable. They don’t want to look straight at it, because it reminds them of how fragile they are, too.”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“and”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“There is so much about the world we don’t understand, my mother often said. Who are we to tell others what is true, or what they ought to believe?”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“He’d dropped so many hints, but I was tired of guessing. I needed to know. Closing the distance between us, I brushed my lips against his. The contact only lasted for a second before Tate jerked away, sucking in a sharp breath. His eyes went wide, and then his eyebrows furrowed as if he wasn’t quite sure what had just happened.”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“it’s because I’ve been cursed by two ghosts!”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“I’m not interested in taking another ride on the bipolar roller coaster, Tate, so you can save your apology. I don’t want to hear it.”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“That did it. I had developed a stupid, girlish, wildly inappropriate crush on Tate Baldwin.”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“A reader lives a thousand lives. You’re always off somewhere, Bellamy, exploring other worlds. You have many lives.”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“troglodytes”
― Alicia Michaels, Bellamy and the Brute

“It suddenly occurred to me that Archer Hale had taught himself an entire language, but hadn't had a single person to talk to. Until me.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice