˗ˏˋ folk of air (book series) ´ˎ˗

• "i do not yearn to be their equal. in my heart, i yearn to best them." ✧ jude duarte, the cruel prince, page 31
• "but i am done with being weak. i am done with being good. i think i am going to be something else." jude duarte, the cruel prince, page 43
• "instead of being afraid, i could become something to fear." jude duarte, the cruel prince, page 197
• "if i cannot be better than them, i will become so much worse." jude duarte, the cruel prince, page 210
• "children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night." jude duarte, the cruel prince, page 286
• "i have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. your hearts beats fast. your senses are heightened. you grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy." balekin, the wicked king, page 25
• "if you're the sickness, i suppose you can't also be the cure." cardan, the wicked king, page 57
• "it occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe i took a killing dose when i should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time." jude duarte, the wicked king, page181
• "fear is terrible, but the combination of hope and fear is worse." jude duarte, the wicked king, page 244
• "by you, i am forever undone." cardan, queen of nothing, page 203
• "we have lived in our armor for so long, you and i. And now i am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it." cardan, queen of nothing, page 203
• "my sweet nemesis, how glad i am that you returned." cardan, queen of nothing, page 204
• "i spent much of my life guarding my heart. i guarded it so well that i could behave as though i didn’t have one at all. even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. but it is yours." cardan, queen of nothing, page 209
• "because stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth." how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories, page 159
• "you don't think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?" how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories, page 162
• "having a heart is terrible, but you need one anyway." how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories, page 165

˗ˏˋ the last unicorn ´ˎ˗

• "real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. you must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back."
• "we are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream."
• "i have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. i am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although i cannot weep, and i want nothing, and i cannot die. i am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but i do. i regret."
• "i would enter your sleep if i could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as i would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. but i cannot come in unless you dream of me."

˗ˏˋ song lyrics ´ˎ˗

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