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    Karen M. McManus
    “We’re endgame.”
    I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?”
    “It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen.”
    ― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next
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    Karen M. McManus
    “But you can’t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. So don’t give up on yourself just yet.”
    ― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next
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    Holly Black
    “Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: backstabbing, life, stab
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    Holly Black
    “Sweet Jude, you’re my dearest punishment”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
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    Holly Black
    “Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: cardan-greenbriar, jude-duarte
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    Holly Black
    “If wishes were horses, my mortal father used to say, beggars would ride.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: beggars, horses, wishes
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    Holly Black
    “Yes, my sweet villain, my darling god… Sweet Jude. You are my dearest punishment”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
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    Holly Black
    “Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter.” She goes to the freezer and removes a tub of mint chocolate chip. She brings that and two spoons back to the sofa. “For now, accept this delight, unworthy though it is for the Queen of Faerie in exile.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: ice-cream, revenge
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    Holly Black
    “I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: jude-duarte, power
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    Holly Black
    “I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
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    Holly Black
    “He hates you. Even if he wants you, he hates you. Maybe he hates you the more for it.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
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    Holly Black
    “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.” I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?” He grins up at me. “They missed.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
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    Holly Black
    “Sometimes lying is a real pleasure.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: lying
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    Holly Black
    “Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It's not like you're actually currently betraying him.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: snark
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    Holly Black
    “Rules are different for poets.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: poets
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    Holly Black
    “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: hate, love
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    Holly Black
    “Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: folk-of-the-air, holly-black, jude-duarte, the-wicked-king
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    Holly Black
    “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
    tags: jude-and-cardan
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    Holly Black
    “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
    tags: hideous, hideous-beauty, love, romance
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    Holly Black
    “Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: holly-black, jude, madoc, the-cruel-prince
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    Holly Black
    “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
    tags: cardan, faeries, fantasy, holly-black, i-love-them, jude, sarcastic
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    Holly Black
    “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
    tags: knighthood, power, throne
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    Holly Black
    “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
    tags: jude
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    Holly Black
    “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.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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    Holly Black
    “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.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: holly-black, the-cruel-prince, the-folk-of-the-air
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    Holly Black
    “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.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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    Holly Black
    “Go ahead. Insult me.”
    His eyebrows go up. “I don’t take commands from mortals,” he says with his customary cruel smile.
    “So you’re going to say something nice? I don’t think so. Faeries can’t lie.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: cardan-greenbriar, jude-duarte
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    Holly Black
    “Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: betrayal, dangerous, dark, enemies, faerie, fiction, jude, prince-cardan, young-adult
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    Holly Black
    “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.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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    Holly Black
    “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. It's like fighting, except what we're fighting for is to crawl inside each other's skin.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
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