Status Updates From The Prisoner's Throne (The ...

“Having spent a great deal of time playing the fool myself,” Cardan says, “I recognized your game. Not at first, but long before Jude. She didn’t want to believe me, and I am never going to tire of crowing about being right”


Ofc Cardan is smart, my world

“For someone who cannot outright lie, you twist the truth so far that I am surprised it doesn’t cry out in agony.”

“ I know what it is to want something so much that you would rather have the shadow of it than nothing, even if that means you will never have the real thing.”

“We can all die together,” Oak says. “In one grand, glorious final act of stupidity fit for a ballad.”

“Oak considers hags unfathomable beings, different from other Folk. Creators of objects, casters of curses. Part witch, part god.”

“Oh, don’t worry,” Oak says. “I’m not sure I trust anyone anymore. Not even myself”

“Viper nest,” Oak agrees.
“It seems quite the trick to tell the friendly snakes from the other ones.”
“Ah,” Oak says. “They’re all friendly snakes until they bite you.”

“I want,” she says. “That’s my problem. I want and I want and I want.”
“What do you want?”.
“Everything.”

“ it chafes worse than before to pretend to ineptitude”