“I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone—truly gone beneath the waves—I hated myself as I never have before.”
― The Wicked King
― The Wicked King
“Cal's eyes flicker, out to the trees. But he's not looking at the leaves. His gaze is in the past, to something more painful.
"She killed my true mother as well. And she'll kill all of us if we let her."
The words come out hard and harsh, a rusty blade to saw flesh. They taste wonderful in my mouth. "Not if I kill her first."
For all his talents, Cal is not a violent person. He can kill you in a thousand different ways, lead an army, burn down a village, but he will not enjoy it. So his next words take me by surprise.
"When the time comes," he says, staring at me, "we'll flip a coin."
His bright flame has grown dark indeed.”
―
"She killed my true mother as well. And she'll kill all of us if we let her."
The words come out hard and harsh, a rusty blade to saw flesh. They taste wonderful in my mouth. "Not if I kill her first."
For all his talents, Cal is not a violent person. He can kill you in a thousand different ways, lead an army, burn down a village, but he will not enjoy it. So his next words take me by surprise.
"When the time comes," he says, staring at me, "we'll flip a coin."
His bright flame has grown dark indeed.”
―
“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“By you, I am forever undone.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
― The Wicked King
― The Wicked King
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