This post is about the best quotes from The Cruel Prince series by Holly Black.
The Cruel Prince series is an incredible fantasy series by author Holly Black, following the life of Jude Durate, trying to navigate life as a human girl in a world of Fae.
If you loved Jude’s story and fell in love with Cardan Greenbriar too, then this post is for you!
Let’s reminisce on the best quotes from this incredible series.
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
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About The Cruel Prince
The Cruel Prince series by Holly Black, also known as The Folk of the Air trilogy, follows Jude, a mortal girl who is taken to live in the realm of the Fae after her parents are murdered. In this dangerous and politically charged world of immortal faeries, Jude yearns for power and acceptance, especially from the cruel Prince Cardan.
As she navigates treacherous court politics, manipulative allies, and her growing feelings for Cardan, Jude struggles to find her place while battling both external and internal enemies.
The series is full of intrigue, betrayal, and complex relationships, with Jude working to prove herself worthy of power in a world that despises her. The trilogy includes The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, and The Queen of Nothing.
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Best Quotes From The Cruel Prince
“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop.”
“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
“By you, I am forever undone.”
“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 can’t.”
“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
“If you hurt me, I wouldn’t cry. I would hurt you back.”
“It’s you I love,” he says. “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.”
“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.”
“So I am to sit here and feed you information,” Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. “And you’re to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward.”
I fix him with a look. “I can be charming. I charmed you, didn’t I?”
He rolls his eyes. “Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.”
“If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
“He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”
I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”
He grins up at me. “They missed.”
“I hate you,” I breathe into his mouth. “I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”
“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.”
“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
“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.”
“I missed you,” I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. “In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you.”
“My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.”
“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”
“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
“This is my room,” he points out, affronted. “And that’s my wife.”
“So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”
“I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
“Let’s have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
“It is my belief that books are living things…. And as living things, they need to be protected.”
“Kill him before he makes you love him.”
