Elfhame Quotes

“A small smile turns up a corner of my mouth. I feel the sharpness of my teeth and roll my tongue over them. For the first time, I like the feeling.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

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

“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

“I have secrets aplenty. There are so many things you don't know, daughter of Madoc. And I think you crave a little violence yourself.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I feel a guard's hand close on my arm. Then Cardan's voice comes.
"Do not touch her."
A terrible silence follows. I wait for him to pronounce judgement on me. Whatever he commands will be done. His power is absolute. I don't even have the strength to fight back.
"Whatever can you mean?" Randalin says. "She's-"

"She is my wife,"

Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd.
"The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I have struck the Prince of Elfhame.

Oh, I am in trouble now.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“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

“Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me.
"We would be surprised to find that," I call back.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“This is my room," he points out, affronted. "And that’s my wife."
"So you keep telling everyone," the Bomb says.
"But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that."
"Oh, I don’t know," I say. "Maybe he’d like to hear me scream."
"I would," Cardan says, standing. "And perhaps one day I will.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”
― ― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“After all, who wants to die slowly when you can die fast?

Me.

I don't want to die fast. I don't want to die at all.”
― Holly Black

“...in the mortal world, there are such things as backyards. Here, there are forest and sea, rocks and mazes, flowers that are red only when they get fresh blood.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince