Cruel Prince Quotes

“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 Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

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

“If I didn’t have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.”
― Holly Black

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

“Maybe it was the shame that was the problem.”
― 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 Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, and no television.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.⋆☽⋆.”
― Holly Black

“Jude?' [Madoc said (after he stabbed her in the side)]”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“It is as though my heart is still locked away in a box, still buried underground.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Would you forswear a promise for me?" He is smiling to me as though he is teasing.
"What promise?" He sweeps me around him, my leather slippers pirouetting over the packed earth. In the distance, a piper begins to play.
"Any promise," he says lightly, although it is no light thing he is asking.
"I guess it depends," I say, because the real answer, a flat no, isn't what anyone wants to hear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“How can you stand them?", I ask. (...)
"There's pleasure in being with them," he says. "Taking what we wish, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in veing awful.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“There's safety in being awful.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I'm 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 - this is the least of what I can do.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing