CARDAN GREENBRIAR'S QUOTES- such a character development.
β€οΈ " Bold of You to assume I know what I'm doing."
"I am no murderer."
βNever is like Forever.β
"Time to change partners. Oh, did I steal your line?"
β Ruling is like wine. It brings out the worst in anyone who takes too deep a draught, yet we all want a taste.β
"But then it is my nature to only wants things I cannot have."
βMost of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.β
"Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.β
βAnd to Jude, who gave me a gift tonight. One that I plan to repay in kind.β
βI am the Corn King, after all, to be sacrificed so little Oak can take my place in the spring.β
βYou ought not to be here tonight, little ant. Go back to the palace.β
β You believe I planned your humiliation? Me? That sounds like work.β
βKiss me again, Kiss me until I am sick of it.β
βIf youβre the sickness, I suppose you canβt also be the cure.β
βIt seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.β
βThe three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.β
βYes, my great villain, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I canβ
βMarry me, Become the Queen of Elfhame.β
βI exile Jude Duarte to the mortal world. Until and unless she is pardoned by the crown, let her not step one foot in Faerie or forfeit her life.β
"I urge you: Come be angry at nearer distance."
"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."
"Above me is the same silvery moon that shines down on you. Looking at it makes me recall the glint of your blade pressed against my throat and other romantic moments."
β As you wish. Then I suppose I will have to examine you alone in my chambers.β
βDo not touch her.β
"She is my wife, The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile."
"Although I am wearing the cloak Mother Marrow made me, the one that will turn any blade, I still promise to run, tail between my legs. And since I have a tail, that should be amusing for everyone. Are you satisfied?β
"I assume you werenβt actually trying to shoot me, Since the note was in your handwriting.β
βIt was terrifying, watching you fall. I mean, youβre generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before.β
"Not you, You never break.β
βPardoned by the crown. Meaning by The King Of Faerie. Or its queen. You could have returned anytime you wanted."
βThere was a prophecy given when I was born. Usually Baphen is uselessly vague, but in this case, he made it clear that should I rule, I would make a very poor king. The destruction of the crown, the ruination of the throne- a lot of dramatic language. (..) I never minded being a minor villain, but itβs possible I might have grown into something else, a High King as monstrous as Dain. And if I did- if I fulfilled that prophecy- I ought to be stopped. And I believe that you would stop me.β
"Would you like me to inform the Council that you will see them another time? It will be a novelty to have me make your excuses.β
"No, no, enough. Itβs all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end. Leave us. I tire of the lot of you.β
βThis is my room, And thatβs my wife."
βUnlike Locke, I never thought love was a game"
βTo you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queenβs hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.β
"You looked like a knight in a story tonight. Possibly a filthy story."
βMock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips. By you, I am forever undone.β
"No, What YOU want.β
"My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned."
"It's you I love, I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didnβt have one at all. Even now, it is shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours. You probably guessed as much, but just in case you didnβt."
"A King is not his crown."
" I am the High King, and I do not forfeit that title to you, not for a sword or a show or my pride. It is worth more than any of those things. Besides which, two rulers stand before you. And even had you cut me down, one would remain.β
" βBut vows should never be to a crown. They should be to a ruler. And they should be of your own free will. I am your king, and beside me stands my queen. But it is your choice whether or not to follow us. Your will shall be your own.βAnd with his bare hands, he cracks the Blood Crown in two. It breaks like a childβs toy, as though in his hands it was never made of metal at all, brittle as wishbone."
βI havenβt worn anything in days, I donβt see why I ought to start now.β
"Tomorrow, Or the next day. Or perhaps next week.βAnd with that, he rises, takes a long drink from his goblet, sets it down on the table, and walk to where I sit.βWill you dance?β
" You donβt know how long Iβve waited to hear those words, You donβt want me dead."
βYou need not say it out of pity, Or because I was under a curse. I have asked you to lie to me in the past, in this very room, but I would beg you not to lie now."
βBecause I am clever and funny, You didnβt mention my handsomeness.β
βIt was like being trapped in the dark. I was alone, any my instinct was to lash out. I was perhaps not entirely an animal, but neither was I myself. I could not reason. There were only feelings- hatred and terror and the desire to destroy. And you. I knew little else, but I always knew you.β
"He ought to have paid you in gold.β
"Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. βAnd scheming great schemes.β"
