i am forever undone

New stills from Shadow and Bone | 14.04.2021

lines from 17776 that live forever in my head

read in 2018.: the cruel prince by holly black + the duarte sisters

I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.

― The Cruel Prince, Holly Black

Watching his fear ripen fills me with an almost voluptuous satisfaction. I, who have had little power in my life, must be on guard against that feeling. Power goes to my head too quickly, like faerie wine.

I am the Queen of Elfhame. Even though I am the queen in exile, I am still the queen. And that means Madoc isn’t just trying to take Cardan’s throne. He’s trying to take m i n e.

—please jude.

queen of nothing by holly black

trying to meet the essay word count: it’s you i love. i have 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. you probably guessed as much. but just in case you didn’t.