Alejandra

“He looked down at a red book, embossed in gold. The title was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. He frowned at it in confusion. It wasn't what he'd thought a mortal book would be like; he thought they would be dull things, odes to their cars or skyscrapers.
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'This is really a mortal book?' he asked.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“For the murder of Jest, the court joker of Hearts. I sentence this man to death." She spoke without feeling, unburdened by love or dreams or the pain of a broken heart. It was a new day in Hearts, and she was the Queen. "Off with his head.

"Murderer, martyr, monarch, mad. Don't you remember? I know you remember. "

"You are a fool."
"Good. I've become rather fond of fools."

"A Joker. A Rook. A mystery."

"You've been trying to steal my heart."
"The easiest way to steal something," Jest murmured, "is for it to be given willingly.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing