Quotes About Conflict

That's family for you. Can't live with them, can't murder them.

I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

I haul around and slap him. It's a stinging blow, smearing the gold on his cheekbone and causing his skin to redden. We stare at each other for long moments, breathing hard. His eyes are bright with something entirely different from anger. I am in over my head. I am drowning.

He hates you. Even if he wants you, he hates you. Maybe he hates you the more for it.

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven't been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I've been fighting my own shadow.

I thought I was playing the game of pissing off people who hated me already and eating the consequences.

But what if I actually am becoming besotted with him? Cardan is more knowledgeable than I am at love. He could use that against me, just as I asked him to use it against Nicasia. Perhaps he found a way to turn the tables after all. Kill him, a part of me says, a part I remember from the night I took him captive. Kill him before he makes you love him.

I can't believe he said that and then just walked out, leaving me reeling. I am going to STRANGLE him.

Mutually assured destruction.

Jude. You are in no mood for games, very well. I am in no mood for them, either. Let me write it outright; You are pardoned. I revoke your banishment. I rescind my words. Come home. Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home.

When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over. If the Court isn't busy drinking poison, then it's drinking bile.

I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

Clap her in chains,¨ Says Randalin. I feel a guards hand close on my arm. Then Cardans voice comes. ¨Do not touch her. She is my wife,¨ Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. ¨The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.¨ Page 147

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it's like hope.

I still feel the warm pressure of his fingers against my skin. Something is really wrong with me, to want what I hate, to want someone who despises me, even if he wants me, too. My only comfort is that he doesn't know what I feel.

I don't know what to apologize for first," I say. "Cutting off your head or hesitating so long to do it.

I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest, with black hair as iridescent as a raven's wing and cheekbones sharp enough to cut a girl's heart. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

It feels good to be fighting someone other than myself." Jude "The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)". Apple Books.

He leans in and closes his eyes. ¨Most of all, i hate you because i think of you. Often. Its disgusting, and I cant stop.¨ I am Shocked into silence.

I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.