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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
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“A sharp tongue is no match for a sharp tooth.” (How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories Quotes)

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“But no one chooses a future. You choose a path without being certain where it leads.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose, but here’s one. Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Hate that felt so good that he welcomed being consumed by it. Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“He could no more lie than any of the Folk, but stories were the closest thing to lies the Folk could tell.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“He no longer had a sense of up or down. One was always suspended, fighting against the current or giving in to it.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“I am not so arrogant as to have begun my fight with a troll in the middle of the night. And I definitely wouldn’t have managed to talk her to death.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“I think you have iron poisoning,” she tells him, which could be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Playing the villain was the only thing he’d ever really excelled at.” (How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories Quotes)

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Remember, all you really get to control is yourself.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“Stories can justify anything. It doesn’t matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn’t matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn’t. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“You didn’t get what you deserved, but you don’t have to live inside that one story forever. No one’s heart has to remain stone.”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“You didn’t hear the story I told,” he goes on. “A shame. It featured a handsome boy with a heart of stone and a natural aptitude for villainy. Everything you could like.”  

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?”

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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

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