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  • #1
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #2
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    Stephen Chbosky
    “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #4
    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #5
    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #6
    Holly Black
    “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #7
    Holly Black
    “No, I won’t help you. No, I won’t hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #8
    Holly Black
    “Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #9
    Holly Black
    “I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?
    One piece at a time.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #10
    Holly Black
    “I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #11
    Holly Black
    “Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.” His gaze goes to me. “To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #12
    Holly Black
    “Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #13
    Holly Black
    “And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
    It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #14
    Holly Black
    “I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. “And you.” He looks at me, his lips curving in something that’s not quite a smile; it’s more and less than that. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.” And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #15
    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “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

  • #17
    Holly Black
    “If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Holly Black
    “I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: jude

  • #20
    Holly Black
    “But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #21
    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

  • #22
    Holly Black
    “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

  • #23
    Holly Black
    “The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #24
    Holly Black
    “Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #25
    Holly Black
    “Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #26
    Holly Black
    “He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “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

  • #27
    Holly Black
    “Tell me again what you said at the revel,” he says, climbing over me, his body against mine.

    “What?” I can barely think.

    “That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.”

    “I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”

    He kisses me harder.

    “I hate you,” I breathe into his mouth. “I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #28
    Holly Black
    “Kill him before he makes you love him.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #29
    Holly Black
    “If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #30
    Holly Black
    “If he thought I was bad, I would be worse. If he thought I was cruel, I would be horrifying.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King



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