Prince Cardan Quotes

“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

“The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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

“Sharpen your heart.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Guard your mortal heart.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Harden your heart.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Go ahead. Insult me." His eyebrows go up. "I don't take commands from mortals," he says with his customary cruel smile.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Cardan has stopped beside a boy with long copper hair and a pair of small moth wings- a boy who isn't bowing. The boy laughs and Cardan lunges. Between one eyeblink and the next, the prince's balled fist strikes the boy hard across the jaw, sending him sprawling. As the boy falls, Cardan grabs one of his wings. It tears like paper. The boy's scream is thin and reedy. He curls up into himself on the ground, agony plain on his face. I wonder if faerie wings grow back; I know that butterflies that lose a wing never fly again.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince