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I Could Give You the Moon

by Ann Liang (Goodreads Author)

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Payal said: " the only Ann Liang book I have read is "If you could see the sun" and Chanel took my heart then. I am so excited to read her book🤭🤭plus, can we talk about how gorgeous this cover is??? it takes my breath away every time I look at it😍

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my girlie Cha ...more "

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The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2)

by Holly Black (Goodreads Author)

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Payal said: " JUDE CARDAN ARE MY ROMAN EMPIRE

#7th read- april, 2026
one chapter a day baby. less go💕

#6th read- June, 2025
#5th read- August, 2024
#4th read- December, 2023
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#2nd read- October, 2022
#1st read- September 14, 2022/b>

0.0% "Guess who' JUDE CARDAN ARE MY ROMAN EMPIRE

#7th read- april, 2026
one chapter a day baby. less go💕

#6th read- June, 2025
#5th read- August, 2024
#4th read- December, 2023
#3rd read- April, 2023
#2nd read- October, 2022
#1st read- September 14, 2022/b>

0.0% "Guess who's reading this book for the fourth time (via audiobook)😙✌
Also, I am gonna update for every minor thing so, if you haven't read this series beware🙃"

0.3% "When the first word of the book is JUDE😭😭"

1.49% "Jude Taryn lost because they used Taryn's strategy🤣🤣"

2.08% "Jude being the puppet master and cardan being a sweet, little (a jerk) puppet😏🥰"

4.46% ""I would make a poor husband."
I am still furious with cardan for the first thing he did after marrying but yk he has my (and Jude's) heart🌝"

5.06% ""Are you commanding me?"
Oh how Cardan wishes it to be true (as we all know jude is the top)🤭"

8.63% "'Perhaps hunger is why I am being snappish.'
Can we all agree that it is true??"

11.31% "'She is a mirror, reflecting someone I could have been but am not.'
And am so thankful for that🙏"

11.9% ""I'm not saying you're still his favourite. "
This bitch. Why do I have suffer through Taryn again?😭"

16.37% ""Someone you trust has already betrayed you."
Okay, but no one saw it coming until the very moment it was upon us."

16.96% ""I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me."
"And what made you decide it wasn't?"
"They missed."
Bitch😂😂"

16.96% "Cardan drunkenly delivering the line of the century. Also, I died here.🥺

"Kiss me again, kiss me until I am sick of it."💖

'He hates you. Even if he wants you, he hates you. Maybe he hates you the more for it.'😩

"If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure."💗

(Also, you can listen to song cliche by chloe ament. The song is about jurdan)"

21.13% "".....that was my mistake, and one I will not make again."
Sorry Madoc but you do and like several times😂"

23.51% ""Locke? Good riddance"
🤣🤣🤣

"You knew no one would ever believe you. I belong in this world. You don't. And you know it."
Who knows, maybe she will own faerie one day😏"

23.81% ""He cannot love you."
You sure Nicasia?"

24.11% ""I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted."
She definitely did that🤭"

25.89% ""When I'm with him, I feel like the hero of my a story. Of my story. It's when he's not there that things don't feel right."
Ma'am very (dis)respectfully, you're nothing.
(For context, Taryn is talking about Locke🤡)"

26.79% "'I wish I'd asked Cardan for his true name back when I had a crossbow trained on him'
Isn't it Cardan-motherfucking-Greenbriar or Cardan-obsessed-with-jude-Greenbriar?"

27.98% "'but mortals won't grow old so long as they don't leave Elfhame'
Therefore, Jurdan will remain together for eternity😭💗"

28.87% ""He stole my ring. He stole it."
He would need a ring to marry jude so he stole her ring😩😩😩"

30.65% ""I have too often been troubled by dreams of jude. Her face features prominently in my most frequent nightmares."
What should I make it of Cardan?👀"

30.95% ""But I believe it is only that her beauty is....unique. Excruciating. Alarming. Distressing. "
Is it because you think of her too much and often but can't get her, Cardan?🌝"

30.95% ""I hate you"
He tilts my face to his.
"Say it again."🥵💗"

31.55% ""Will you dance with me? For I find you every bit as beautiful as you find me."
Jude asking Cardan for dance wasn't on my bingo list😩❤️🩹"

31.85% ""I just care that you enjoyed it."
My poor babygirl was hurt here🥺"

33.04% ""...but I will be sure to crumple up some paper and drop it into the water."
This Cardan has humor😂"

33.33% "'....when I realize two things: One, he gave me an order; and two, I obeyed it.'
Jude was mad about it. Hahahhaha😂😂"

34.82% ""Then I guess I don't know my daughter very well. Because the Jude I knew would cut out that boy's heart for what he did to you tonight." 👀👀"

36.31% "'Cardan stands, hurling his teacup at the wall, where it shatters. "Tell the Queen of Undersea that if she threatens me again, she will find her daughter my prisoner instead of my bride. "

Woah, Cardan in rage. He was so over Nicasia or I say her cheating ass."

36.61% ""We would be legends. Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness."
And that's why Jurdan is supreme. They're legend and happy as well😩💗"

36.9% ""Give me an order again and I will show you true shame."😏"

38.99% "'An abandoned prince, weaned on cat milk and cruelty, left to roam the palace like a little ghost.'
🥺🥺🥺🥺"

41.37% ""Your Majesty. You sent for me?
"Ah, yes. So are we at war?"
'For a moment, I think he is talking about us.'
Maybe he was🌝"

42.56% ""Should I touch her like this"
The art of seduction: youtube tutorial by Cardan
🤭🤭🤭"

42.86% ""Do you think it would work?"
It definitely is working🌝
Also, chapter 15 is so hawt🥵"

42.86% ""Tell me that you hate me."
"I hate you. I hate you. I hate you."
(I love you. I love you. I love you.)😭😭😭"

43.15% ""I hate you so much that sometimes I can't think of anything else."
This holds the same energy as MOAIHYBITOYOIDAICS <3"

43.15% ""This is an absolutely terrible idea."
"Yes."
And still they continue😩😩"

43.45% "The audacity of his tail to curl around Jude's calf and tease her🌝"

45.24% ""Your ridiculous family might be suprised to find that not everything is solved by murder."
And yet, Locke is murdered by Taryn😂😂"

51.49% ""I hate him seeing with Nicasia."
Jealous much, Jude?😂"

53.87% ""The other night-"
"I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system."
"And is it? Out of your system?"
"Yes."
Why lie Jude?😭"

58.63% "Damn, she has a high tolerance for pain."

60.71% ""Are you happy for me? Truly?"
Taryn had the audacity to ask jude this when she stabbed her in back for that piece of shit aka Locke."

61.31% "'All I want to do is walk into his arms. I want to drown my worries in his embrace. I want him to say something totally unlike himself, about things being okay.'🥺🥺🥺"

61.61% "'Kill him. Kill him before he makes you love him.'
Her first thought was to kill Cardan when she thought she was falling in love with him😩😩"

61.61% ""Jude, are you afraid of me?"
'I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear.'👀"

61.9% ""Your wish-no, strike that. Your command is my command."
He feels a little betrayed🥺🥲"

""I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or 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 beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before." Bitch was afraid for Jude. Also he was imagining Jude giving him ridiculous orders that he were following. Give me a Cardan atp🥺💗

""Don't be such a prickly rose, Your Majesty, I am not giving you an order."
Roach and Cardan's friendship isn't appreciated much. Also Cardan takes orders from Jude only😽

""Crawl to me," he says with a grin.
She should have crawled and slapped him or maybe kissed him idk😩😭❤

""The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder."😂
SOMEONE KIDNAPS YOUR WIFE. MURDER😏😏

"'He leaps unsteadily onto a long banquet table.' A drunk teenager. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk

""My darling seneschal. My sweet villain, my darling god."
Cardan nicknaming Jude😩🦋>>>

""Sweet Jude. You are my dearest punishment."
Kill me atp😩😭🦋❤

""Fine, talk to me."
Damn it. He's been poisoned and wants Jude to talk with him so, he can be awake🥺✨

""Go with Jude." (Cardan said to Bomb)
"Damn you."
They both are stubborn and cares way too much for eachother😩😭

"'he poisoned Cardan, he tormented me.' She thought that Cardan is poisoned before thinking for her own suffering at Balekin's hand. Shut up

""I tricked you." Jude and her love to play with poisons😂

"'You're a good little murderer.' Balekin brought his killer to faerie himself😂

"I trust you. I trusted you." Ouch

""Marry me. Become the Queen of Elfhame." Be mine. Become my wife. Make me your husband. Let me be yours for forever😩🦋❤

""If you agree, I will marry you tonight. Now, even. Right here." He's so desperate to marry Jude. To tie himself to her for eternity😭💗😩

""Perhaps you imagined something more romantic." Or maybe you did Cardan because I did. I wanted Cardan on one knee proposing Jude but okay😭❤

THEY MARRY EACHOTHER. I REPEAT THEY FUCKING MARRY EACH OTHER. Also, Cardan married jude with the ring he stole from her. And they say romance is dead😭😭😭

"'He kisses the scar of my palm.' He drew stars around my scars and now I'm bleeding🥺🥺🥺

""I will lie down. If you lie with me." 🥺🦋

" "Well, wife." Shut up. Fuck off Cardan✋🦋

""I am certain she would win." He has always been proud of Jude. Argue with a wall😌

""Go against me, and I will show you what this boy will do my lady." No he didn't😱🥰

""And I mislike being given orders." Except from a certain mortal girl.

"You stole my seneschal." Seneschal is important. Noted😽💗

""I exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world." SOMEWHERE IN THE HAZE, GOT A SENSE I'D BEEN BETRAYED. She trusted him and he tricked her. Fuck you Cardan💔🗡

"Work to hurt Cardan."
Vivi is such a mood. Also cardan is happy in faerie thinkig he tricked Jude and here Jude is planning his murder-in-cold-blood. ...more "

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"Jude calling Nicasia "an inept torturer who is irrelevant to everyone's plans." made my day🤣🤣" — Aug 24, 2024 09:39AM

Apr 12, 2026 04:00AM · see review

Payal’s Quotes

“You know, I get it. Being raised as a superstar must be really, really difficult for you. Always a commodity, never a human being, not a single person in your family thinking you’re worth a damn off the court— yeah, sounds rough. Kevin and I talk about your intricate and endless daddy issues all the time. I know it’s not entirely your fault that you are mentally unbalanced and infected with these delusions of grandeur, and I know you’re physically incapable of holding a decent conversation with anyone like every other normal human being can, but I don’t think any of us should have to put up with this much of your bullshit. Pity only gets you so many concessions, and you used yours up about six insults ago. So please, please, just shut the fuck up and leave us alone.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Raven King

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“Go to hell, Kishimoto.” “I'm right behind you, bro.” He winks at me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

tags: aaron-warner, go-to-hell, kenji-kishimoto, restore-me

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“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

tags: bravery, changing-fate, fate, fight

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“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.”

She leaned against him, resting her head on his shoulder, and closed her eyes. The king’s arms came around her, and she shivered once, as though letting something fall away.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

tags: cardan-greenbriar, jude-duarte

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