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Quotes About Jude

Think of it: I exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown." He pauses. "Pardoned by the crown. Meaning by the King of Faerie. Or its queen. You could have returned anytime you wanted.
~ Holly Black
She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes Jude longed for her bike, but there were none in Faerie. Instead, she had giant toads, and thin greenish ponies and wild-eyed horses slim as shadows. And she had weapons. And her parents' murderer, now her foster father.
~ Holly Black
Jude, Since I cannot imagine there is much in the human lands to interest you, I can only suppose your continued absence in Elfhame is due to me. I urge you. Come be angry at a nearer distance.
~ Holly Black
Jude gives him a look. It is an expression that he never once saw her make when they attended the palace school together, yet from the first he saw it, he knew it to be her truest face. Conspiratorial. Daring. Bold.
~ Holly Black
It wasn't funny." "Oh, mon coeur . It was the funniest thing I've ever heard." "Jude!" she cried, stomping her foot before she realized she'd done it. "I'd kiss you now if I wasn't sure that you'd bit me." She would. She'd nip that obnoxious smile right off his face. "Now I know why you're so good at it. Kissing. You've had loads of practice.
~ Unknown
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
~ John Nelson Darby
TAKE ALMOST ANYTHING FROM JUDE THE OBSCURE. HOW ABOUT THAT TERRIBLE LITTLE PRAYER THAT JUDE REMEMBERS FALLING ASLEEP TO, WHEN HE WAS A CHILD? "TEACH ME TO LIVE, THAT I MAY DREAD "THE GRAVE AS LITTLE AS MY BED. "TEACH ME TO DIE
~ John Irving