Alex

“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 cannot," he says, then frowns.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“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." On the way out, his hands go to my hair. A light touch, barely there, and then gone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince / The Wicked King / The Queen of Nothing

“By you,I am forever undone."
-Cardan Greenbriar”
― Holly Black