"The Cruel Prince" Quotes

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.

Nice things don't happen in storybooks. Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.

Why lie? Why pretend? What's the point of being anything else?

The world seems full of men who are initially infatuated by our eccentricities, but who ultimately expect them to be temporary.

I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.

I am going to tell you something that no sister would ever say to her brother, not in a thousand years. You're a bad person.

Maybe it's time for the bones of the old world to become the bones of the new world.

What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.