34 Quotes About Cardan

  • Author Holly Black
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    The curse is broken. The king is returned."He's every bit as terrifying as any serpent.I don't care. I run into his arms.Cardan's fingers dig into my back. He's trembling, and whether it is from ebbing magic or horro, I am not sure. But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.

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  • Author Holly Black
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    The next time you want to make a point,' Jude says, 'I beg you not to make it so dramatically.'His shoulder hurts, and she may be right about the iron poisoning. He certainly feels as though his head is swimming. But he smiles up at the trees, the looping electrical lines, the streaks of clouds.'So long as you're begging,' he says.

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  • Author Holly Black
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    Villains were wonderful. They got to be cruel and selfish, to preen in front of mirrors and poison apples, and trap girls on mountains of glass. They indulged all their worst impulses, revenged themselves for the least offense, and took every last thing they wanted. And sure, they wound up in barrels studded with nails, or dancing in iron shoes heated by fire, not just dead, but disgraced and screaming. But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.

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  • Author Holly Black
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    Get down here before you’re recognized.” “Playing hide-and-seek under the table? Crouching in the dirt? Typical of your kind, but far beneath my dignity.” He laughs unsteadily, like he expects I am going to laugh, too. I don’t. I ball up my fist and punch him in the stomach, right where I know it will hurt. He staggers to his knees. The goblet drops to the dirt, making a hollow clanking sound. “Ow!” he shouts, and lets me tug him under the table.

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  • Author Holly Black
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    Cardan stands, too. '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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