Jude Duarte Quotes

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PLEASE JUDE”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“But I can't pretend that I don't like the sound of him screaming my name.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“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 cannot," he says, then frowns.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“You will make an interesting High King,' I tell him.

He looks alarmed. 'I most definitely will not. The Folk adore Cardan and they're terrified of my sister, two excellent things. I hope they rule Elfhame for a thousand years and then pass it down to one of a dozen offspring. No need for me to be involved.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“I hate you," I whisper before he can speak.

He tilts my face to his.

"Say it again," he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly, stinking crown on my head.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“that's my wife!”
― Holly Black

“She's going to want to wear your skull for a hat,' Oak warns. There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment. 'And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

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

“Jude never loved Locke.” My face feels hot, but my shame
is an excellent cover to hide behind. “She loved someone else.
He’s the one she’d want dead.”
I am pleased to see Cardan flinch. “Enough,” he says before
I can go on. “I have heard all I care to on this subject—”
“No!” Nicasia interrupts, causing everyone under the hill to
stir a little. It is immense presumption to interrupt the High
King. Even for a princess. Especially for an ambassador. A
moment after she speaks, she seems to realize it, but she goes
on anyway. “Taryn could have a charm on her, something that
makes her resistant to glamours.”
Cardan gives Nicasia a scathing look. He does not like her
undermining his authority. And yet, after a moment, his anger
gives way to something else. He gives me one of his most
awful smiles. “I suppose she’ll have to be searched.”
Nicasia’s mouth curves to match his. It feels like being back
at lessons on the palace grounds, conspired against by the
children of the Gentry.
I recall the more recent humiliation of being crowned the
Queen of Mirth, stripped in front of revelers. If they take my
gown now, they will see the bandages on my arms, the fresh
slashes on my skin for which I have no good explanation.
They will guess I am not Taryn.
I can’t let that happen. I summon all the dignity I can
muster, trying to imitate my stepmother, Oriana, and the way
she projects authority. “My husband was murdered,” I say.
“And whether or not you believe me, I do mourn him. I will
not make a spectacle of myself for the Court’s amusement
when his body is barely cold.”
Unfortunately, the High King’s smile only grows. “As you
wish. Then I suppose I will have to examine you alone in my
chambers.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“The money,' I ask. 'Was it real?'

'Oh, yes,' the Prince confirms. 'My sister would be wroth with us otherwise.'

'Wroth.' I echo the archaic word, although I know what it means. Pissed off.

'Super wroth,' he says with a grin.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“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

“So I am going to run away from Faerie. Like you.'

That's not how I'd thought of myself, as a runaway. I was someone with nowhere to go. Waiting until I was older. Or less afraid. Or more powerful. 'The Prince of Elfhame can't up and disappear.'

'They'd probably be happier if I did,' he told me. 'I'm the reason my father is in exile. The reason my mother married him in the first place. My one sister and her girlfriend had to take care of me when I was little, even though they were barely more than kids themselves. My other sister almost got killed lots of times to keep me safe. Things will be easier without me around. They'll see that.'

'They won't,' I told him, trying to ignore the intense surge of envy that came with knowing he would be missed.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Maybe my messed-up life has turned me into someone capable of doing messed-up things.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“His smile dimmed, and he dropped his voice to a whisper. 'This is a real secret. You can't tell anyone. When I was little, I glamoured my mortal sister. I made her hit herself, a lot of times, over and over, and I laughed while she did. It was awful of me, and I never told her that I regretted it. I am afraid of making her remember. She might get really mad.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Oak makes a low moan and tries to sit up. 'Jude,' he mutters. 'Jude, we can't just let him die.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Faeries despise humans as liars, but there are different kinds of lying. Since you and I first came to Faerie, Jude, we've lied to each other plenty. We've pretended to be fine, pretended the possibility of being fine into existence. And when pretending seemed like it might be too hard, we just didn't ask each other the questions that would require it. We smiled and forced laughter and rolled our eyes at the Folk, as though we weren't afraid, when we were both scared all the time.

And if there were hairline cracks in all that pretending, we pretended those away, too.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Does that mean you're going to leave her alone now?'

Cardan leaned in close, close enough that I could feel his breath on my cheek. 'It's much too late for that.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“I used to wish that Madoc never went looking for those girls, and now all I wish is that we could be together again as we once were.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“What would I become if I sttoped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong?”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“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

“Why are you looking at Jude like that?' I asked.

'I can't help it,' he said, never taking his gaze from you. 'I'm drawn to trouble.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“But I'm done with being weak. I'm done with being good. I think I'm going to be something else”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Lo odio più di chiunque altro. Lo odio talmente tanto che qualche volta, quando lo guardo, mi manca il respiro.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I love you", I say, and then he devours me.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“¿Asi de facíl? No sabía que las cosas funcionaran así. Pensab que el amor se presenaba cuando menos te los esperas como un porrazo en el craneo.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Nuestras vidas so la única posesión que tenemos, so nuestra única moneda de cambio. Tenemos derecho a comprar lo que queramos con ellas.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Todos sentimos el impulso de cometer alguna estupidez eso no significa que debamos hacerlo.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Puede que Faerie sea un lugar hermoso pero su belleza es como el cadáver de un ciervo dorado, por dentro está repleto de gusanos a punto de reventar.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Y detesto la última idea que se me pasa por la cabeza: que Cardan me gusta más de lo que jamás me ha gustado nadie, y que, de todas las cosas que me ha hecho en la vida, conseguir que le desee tato es la peor con diferencia.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“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”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince