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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
“No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
"I can't.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“He leans in and closes his eyes. “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.”
I am shocked into silence.
“Maybe you should shoot me after all,” he says, covering his face with one long-fingered hand.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Too many for my eyes to drink them all in, yet I cannot look away.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I know I shouldn’t love it as I do, stolen as I am from the mortal world, my parents murdered. But I love it all the same”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I can see why humans succumb to the beautiful nightmare of the Court, why they willingly drown in it.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Prince Cardan, sixth-born to the High King Eldred, yet still the absolute worst, strides across the floor toward us”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Three is an odd configuration of sisters. There’s always one on the outside”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties. Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights. Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Only idiots aren’t scared of things that are scary,”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“She’s right to be worried. I just declared war”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“These clothes are a costume for me. I am playing dress-up in ignorance”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“She acts like we don’t remember, like there’s some way I am ever going to forget. She acts like it’s her personal tragedy and hers alone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“For a moment, Cardan just stares at me with stupid, crow-black eyes. Then one corner of his mouth curls. “Oh,” he says. “You’re going to regret doing that.”
I don’t think he realizes just how angry I am or how good it feels, for once, to give up on regrets.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I want to win. I do not yearn to be their equal.
In my heart, I yearn to best them.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this”—I throw his own words back at him—“this is the least of what I can do.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“It's shocking," he says, as though he's giving me some great compliment. "I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“It doesn’t make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin’s care. He has been raised up in it, instructed in its nuances, honed through its application. However horrible Cardan might be, I now see what he might become and am truly afraid.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I cannot seem to contort myself back into the shape of a dutiful child.
I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“It’s not the first awful thing I have endured and pushed into the back of my brain. That’s how I’ve been coping, and if there’s another, better way, I do not know it”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I do not understand why he likes me, but it is exciting to be liked.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Taryn had warned me I was going to get myself killed, and I bragged that I was ready for it, but I am not.
“I think I’ll take”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“You had the advantage of me twice, and twice you gave it away. Good luck getting it again”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“You think I don’t deserve him,” I say to Cardan.
He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. “Oh no, I think you’re perfect for each other.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can’t find a good enough story, I make one.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince