The Prisoner S Throne Quotes

“I didn't enjoy being a snake, and yet I appear to be doomed to be reminded of it for all eternity,' Cardan was saying, black curls falling across his face. He held a three-pronged fork aloft, as though to emphasise his point. 'The excess of songs hasn't helped, nor has their longevity. It's been what? Eight years? Nine? Truly, the celebratory air about the whole business has been excessive. You'd think I never did a more popular thing than sit in the dark on a throne and bite people who annoyed me. I could have always done that. I could do that now.'

'Bite people?' echoed Jude from the other end of the table.

Cardan grinned at her. 'Yes, if that's what they like.' He snapped his teeth at the air as though to demonstrate.

'No one is interested in that,' Jude said, shaking her head.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Have I ever told you how much you sound like Madoc when you talk about murder?' Cardan said, opening one eye. 'Because you do.'

Oak expected his sister to be angry, but she only laughed. 'That must be what you like about me.'

'That you're terrifying?' he asked, his drawl becoming exaggeratedly languorous, almost a purr. 'I adore it.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“It's easy to make someone look foolish if you're willing to play the fool.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“If one of them asked for the sun, he'd better figure out how to pluck it from the sky without getting burned.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“In this garden full of asps, he was a pitcher plant, beckoning them to a tumble. Sometimes there was a part of him that wanted to scream: Look at me. See what I am. See what I've done.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Look at my face and I am someone,' she whispered in his ear. 'Look at my back and I am no one. Who am I?'

'I don't know,' Oak admitted, a shiver running between his shoulders.

'Your mirror, HIghness,' she said, her breath tickling the hairs on his neck.

And then she slipped away.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“What shall I do with you, Prince of Elfhame?' Wren asks.

'If you mean for me to be your pet,' he says, 'there's no reason to return me to my pen. My leash is very secure, as you have shown. You have only to pull it taut.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Why not whip me now?' he asks, a challenge in his voice.

'Spending a night dreading what will come in the morning is it's own punishment.' She pauses. 'Especially as you now know your own hand can be turned against you.'

Oak looks directly into her eyes. 'Why are you keeping me at all, Wren? Am I a hostage to command? A lover to be punished? A possession to be locked away?'

'That,' she said, bitterness in her voice, 'is what I am trying to figure out myself.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“Some of my best ideas come in the moment. And I did get a bath.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne