Folk Of The Air Quotes

“Better she never be a bride than wind up a widow”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Cardan had trusted Nicasia not to hurt him, which was ridiculous, since he well knew that everyone hurts one another and that the people you loved hurt you the most grievously.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“If I didn’t have another reason to cross you, I would do it for spite.”
― Holly Black

“You’ve manipulated the High King of Faerie into
obeying you, but you can’t find a way to manipulate one jerk into keeping
our sister happy?”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.

- Cardan Greenbriar”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I have secrets aplenty. There are so many things you don't know, daughter of Madoc. And I think you crave a little violence yourself.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown, let her not step one foot in Faerie or forfeit her life.”
― Holly Black

“Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me.
"We would be surprised to find that," I call back.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“The hardest thing about being wanted was the hardest thing about wanting—wanting badly enough that it gave you a stomachache, wanting in the way that was partly about kissing and partly about swallowing whole, the way a snake gulps down a mouse or the Big Bad Wolf gulps down Red Riding Hood—wanting turned someone you felt like you knew into a stranger. Whether that person was your brother’s best friend or a sleeping prince in a glass prison or a girl who kissed you at a party, the moment you wanted more than just touching your mouth to theirs, they became terrifying and you became terrified.”
― Holly Black

“I am no murderer

- Cardan Greenbriar”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Every day that I don’t beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don’t back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he’s throwing everything he’s got at someone as weak as I am and it’s not working. He’s going to take himself down.

- Jude Duarte”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince