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#1

“And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.”
― Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine

tags: humorous-philosophy, thought-provoking

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#2

“But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red flower after another out into the late afternoon light.”
― Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine

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#3

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

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#4

“In the future . . . if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . . fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

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#5

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

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#6

“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

tags: cardan, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince

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#7

“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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#8

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

tags: fighting, hurting, pain

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#9

“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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#10

“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: holly-black, jude-duarte, the-cruel-prince

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#11

“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

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#12

“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

tags: cardan, holly-black, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince

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#13

“You really do want me,' I say, close enough to feel the warmth of his breath as it hitches. 'And you hate it.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: holly-black, jude-duarte, prince-cardan, the-cruel-prince

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#14

“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

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#15

“You have only seen the least of what I can do.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: dangerous, dark, elfham, enemies, faerie, jude, mysterious, prince-cardan

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#16

“It occurs to me that if I kill him, I can finally stop thinking about him. If I kill him, I won't have to feel like this anymore.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#17

“I do not understand why he likes me, but it is exciting to be liked.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#18

“I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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#19

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

tags: desire, drunk, foolish, kiss, sick, want

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#20

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

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#21

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

tags: cardan-greenbriar

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#22

“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

tags: missed, shooting

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#23

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

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#24

“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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#25

“Sweet Jude, you’re my dearest punishment”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

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#26

“I want to tell you so many lies”
― Holly Black , The Wicked King

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#27

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

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#28

“The point of a fight is not to have a good fight, it’s to win.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

tags: fight, win

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#29

“And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

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#30

“I’ve wanted this and feared it, and now that it’s happening, I don’t know how I will ever want anything else.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

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