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“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.” (The Cruel Prince Quotes)
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”
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 is the least of what I can do.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“I thought love was just supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“If you hurt me, I wouldn’t cry. I would hurt you back.” (The Cruel Prince Quotes)
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Instead, I try to imagine someone she might fall in love with. Maybe it will be a merrow, and he will give her the gift of breathing underwater and a crown of pearls and take her to his bed under the sea. Actually, that sounds amazing. Maybe I am making all the wrong choices.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Let’s have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
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
“Nice things don’t happen in storybooks,” Taryn says. “Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Sometimes I go down and stare at it, trying to see my parents in the tide lines of dried blood. I want to feel something, something besides a vague queasiness. I want to feel more, but every time I look at it, I feel less.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“Three is an odd configuration of sisters. There’s always one on the outside.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“We all want stupid things. That doesn’t mean we should have them.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
