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THE FOLK OF THE AIR i. the cruel prince ii. the lost sisters iii. the wicked king iv. the queen of nothing v. how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories vi. the stolen heir vii. the prisoners throne

SHATTER ME (coming soon) i. shatter me ii. destroy me iii. unravel me iv. fracture me v. ignite me vi. restore me vii. shadow me viii. defy me ix. reveal me x. imagine me xi. believe me

MAZE RUNNER (coming soon) i. the kill order ii. the fever code iii. the maze runner iv. the scorch trials v. the death cure vi. the crank palace vii. the maze cutter

GRISHAVERSE (coming soon) i. shadow and bone ii. siege and storm iii. ruin and rising iv. six of crows v. crooked kingdom vi. king of scars vii. rue of wolves viii. the language of thorns ix. demon in the wood x. the lives of saints xi. the severed moon

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zane hates irene because she never answered to his prayers whenever he needed guidance. she never answered when he used to ask how could he become a better devotee to her. she never answered when he needed someone to talk to. she never answered when he was confused about why he was even doing this. why did he need someone to believe in? she never answered when he had nightmares of her. she never when he asked if she hated him. 

i think zane slowly began to come to terms with the fact that they should not depend on gods to save them. the illusion of irene the matron coming down to save them all was slowly fading and it died when he learned that she was no longer around. that she’s.. sleeping? she’s sleeping while there are people are praying to her to save them, to save their families, to save them from dying?

as a priest, he receives confessions and prayers from people who believe he has the power to talk to irene, to get her to help them. he’s recieved prayers of parents begging irene to save their dying child. from emanciated families who simply ask irene to give them a couple of gold coin. from older couples begging to help their children who are at war. from himself.. who just wanted to be loved by those he looked up to.

what is he supposed to do? how can he live in peace knowing he’s giving these people false hope? because if they don’t receive hope, if they don’t have a goddess to believe in when they feel like they cant control their destiny, who will they go to? how will they have the will to go on?

so it’s no surprise that suddenly, zane realized that irene was useless and undeserving of her title of goddess. if he were irene, if he were a god, he would help those in need.

if.. he were a god.

maybe if- maybe if he had irene’s relic he’d be a god. he would be as powerful as irene. he would help those in need. he would not sleep eternally. he would not abandon humanity.

this thought process is was really started to get zane’s thoughts going. in the beginning it was just wishful thinking. he didn’t really believe it was possible for him to become a god. only thing he did was research everything he could on relics and irene’s origins. it’s only that he realized there wasn’t information that he didn’t know about already. but no. there has to be more. there has to be some traces of irene that no one’s been able to find somewhere. maybe he’ll be the one to get it first.

from then on i think honestly it’s been zane actually losing it and becoming so obsessed with his research on irene and the idea of actually becoming a god getting closer that.. he lost his original goal in the first place.

when he first killed someone, or ordered someone to be killed, he almost couldn’t cope with it. he begged irene for forgiveness (which is ironic since he’s out to replace her), but it didn’t help. it just made the guilt worse and worse until a small voice in his head said, “does it matter? you’re going to become god to save many more lives. what’s the life of one person over the entirety of humanity.” the voice helped him rationalize his actions, albeit in a twisted manner, but… is he wrong? if he doesn’t find irene’s relic, more people will suffer. he has to do this as soon as possible or more lives will be lost and more people will lose hope.

garte also fits into this somehow. growing up, garte’s always lost any sort of pretense around zane. it’s why he’s so attached to him. his father trusts him enough to show his “ugliest” side. he must be special since garroth never got to see this. he’s never hidden the fact that he has killed many others from the smallest reasons to treason towards zane. perhaps in reality he doesn’t care or he knows that his action is keeping zane at his side but.

what im saying is- it’s not too shocking to zane about killing someone and not long after trying to rationalize it. garte showed him how its done, jf he can do it why can’t zane?

but anyway. i rlly like this a lot? i love villains who just lose their way and believe what they’re doing is just. they believe that they are the only ones who can do this because no one can. they believe they are in the right because their end goal is right! and i love it when they don’t realize how much they’ve changed from that initial goal. that what they have done.. was it really necessary? is it something they want??

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The jury of nine is the very essence of forced family, they all hate each other but they have to get along because they're all they have left

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you know it’s bad when a whole fandom is rewriting a series

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“I think of Cardan tied to a chair to cheer myself up. Then I think of the way he looked up at me through the curtain of his crow-black hair, of the curling edge of his drunken smile, and i don’t feel in the least bit comforted.” (Chap 23, Pg 279)

This quote is from when Jude and Taryn got into that fight after the failed coronation, when Jude found out about Locke and Taryn.

It funny how Jude’s thoughts go straight to Cardan. She attemps to cheer herself up at her accomplishment for having him hostage and as her prisoner. Instead she thinks of the way he LOOKED AT HER, and his SMILE.

Poor jude was head over heels for this man for soooo long, yet she didn’t know it and kept denying it the entire series until TQON. She confused her love for cardan with hate since the beginning of TCP. There’s so many quotes from Jude that the readers perceive are filled with hate.

For example:

“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 out a girls heart. I hate him mora than the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breath” (Chap 4, Pg 30)

LIKE HELLO???

“When I look at him, I can hardly breath.”

Jude has had a crush on Cardan since the beginning of the book. But her drive was all directed to hate. She wanted to be better than him, she wanted to humiliate him.

AND CARDAN WAS GOING THROUGH THE EXACT SAME THING.

Cardan has had a crush on Jude for a long time (even when he was in a relationship with Nicasia, i’ll make a separate post on their relationship later) Yet, he envied her for being a mortal and having the things he couldn’t have even as the prince of Elfhame. He admitted to wanting her out of his sight so he could stop feeling the way he did.

Both Jude and Cardan were enemies because of their differences. There was a lot of misunderstanding. Both of them assumed things that weren’t true. Both of them were going through struggles. And In the end, they realized they were more similar than they thought.

(sorry for the typos! it’s really late, and im half asleep, and YES IM RE READING THIS BOOK AGAIN, expect more analysis post for the folk of the air series)

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my favorite queen of nothing quotes!

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"Cardan's hand wobbled." (5)

"No one would stand like that willingly." (5)

"All power is cursed." (10)

"I guess I hit a nerve. My best skill." (20)

"I don't know anything about him." (22)

"But Cardan's name pounds in my ears. Does he have a new seneschal? Does he have a new lover? Is he going to Council meetings by himself? Does he talk about me? Do he and Locke mock me together? Does Taryn laugh?" (22)

"It feels good to be fighting someone other than myself." (24)

"That's cheating, girl." "I'm no knight." (25)

"I try to tell myself that I don't care. That I should be glad if Elfhame winds up conquered." (29)

"I don't want to think of someone else standing beside Cardan in my place, but my mind turns idly through all the worst choices anyway." (29)

"Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts." (31)

"Especially when I consider my feelings for Cardan, since there was no good reason I should have had any feelings for him at all." (33)

"Locke is dead." (37)

"He's dead because I killed him." (38)

"If you get caught, you'll be executed, Jude." "Then I won't get caught." (45)

"I knew you liked her. That's why I had to have her first. Do you remember the party in my maze garden? How I kissed her while you watched?" (47)

"I recall that your hands were on her, but her eyes were on me." (47)

"I remember Cardan on a blanket with a daffodil-haired faerie girl. She pressed her lips to the edge of his boot, and another girl kissed his throat. His gaze turned to me when one of them began kissing his mouth. His eyes were coal-bright, as wet as tar." (47)

"Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh." (69)

"I will make him armor of ice to shatter every blade that strikes and that will make his heart too cold to feel pity. Tell him I will make three swords that, when used in the same battle, will fight with the might of thirty soldiers." (89)

"There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man." (113)

"Maybe I believe that it's time for Elfhame to be ruled by a queen." (128)

"You're a liar. A dirty, mortal liar." (147)

"She is my wife. The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile." (147)

"He was always a symbol of everything about Elfhame that I couldn't have, everything that would never want me. And telling him this feels a little like throwing off a heavy weight, except that wight is supposed to be my armor, and without it, I am afraid I am going to be entirely exposed. But I keep talking anyway, as though I no longer have control of my tongue." (161)

"The other is that I want you here by my side, as my queen." (163)

"Unlike Locke, I never thought love was a game." (185)

"He's so beautiful, so perfectly, horribly, inhumanly beautiful that I can barely breathe." (201)

"By you, I am forever undone." (203)

"I missed you, in the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you." (204)

"My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned." (204)

"It is you I love. I 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 if yours." (209)

"I do love you, I will always love you." (278)

"I first started liking you when we went to talk to the rulers of the low Courts. You were funny, which was weird. And when we went to Hollow Hall, you were clever. I kept remembering how you'd been the one to get us out of the brugh after Dain's coronation, right before I put that knife to your throat. After I tricked you into being the High King, I though once you hated me, I could go back to hating you. But I didn't, And I felt so stupid. I thought that I would get my heart broken. I thought it was a weakness that you would use against me. But then you saved me from the Undersea when it would have been much more convenient to just leave me to rot. After that, I started to hope my feelings were returned. But then there was the exile- I hid a lot, I guess. I thought that if I didn't, if I let myself love you, I would burn up like a match. Like the whole matchbook." (291)

"I knew little else, but I always knew you." (292)

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my favorite wicked king quotes!

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"It will hurt. Pain makes you strong." (1)

"Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to." (6)

"It amuses her to keep me out of trouble." (14)

"If wishes were horses, my mortal father used to say, beggars would ride." (16)

"I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy." (25)

"I stab him in the arm with a little pin I keep hidden in the lining of my doublet. 'I lied.' " (27)

"I give him a sad smile. 'The High King doesn't know, and you're unlikely to tell him once I cut off your tongue.' " (30)

"I'm playing the High King in her little pageant." (32)

"Watch the blade, not the soldier, Madoc told me many times. Steel never deceives." (35)

"I think of his horror at his own desire when I brought my mouth to his, the dagger in my hand, edge against his skin. The toe-curling, corrosive pleasure of that kiss. It felt as though I was punishing him- punishing him and myself at the same time." (40)

" 'Carda-' I remember myself and sink into a bow. 'Your Infernal Majesty.' " (46)

"To that, I have no answer. The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness." (49)

" 'For a moment,' he says, 'I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me.' I make a face at him. 'And what made you decide it wasn't?' He grins up at me. 'They missed.' " (57)

" 'Kiss me again,' he says, drunk and foolish. 'Kiss me until I am sick of it.' "(57)

"If you're sickness, I supposed you can't also be the cure." (47)

"Whysoever would I want you to leave my side?" (59)

"You want to know what I did to make him raise me up? I kissed him on the mouth, and then threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted." (81)

"I have often been troubled by dreams of Jude. Her face features prominently in my most frequent nightmare." (103)

" 'I hate you,' I whisper, before he can speak. He tilts my face to his. 'Say it again,' " (104)

"Whatever you do to me, I can do worse to you." (107)

"I stare at his treacherous mouth and imagine it on me." (107)

"I want to tell you so many lies." (145)

"I hate the way I cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst." (146)

"It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me." (180)

"It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike Mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time." (181)

"I hope Cardan misses me." (225)

"Fear is terrible, but the combination of hope and fear is worse." (244)

"I am small, diminished, powerless." (244)

"I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone- truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before." (266)

"Sometimes lying is a real pleasure." (278)

"Yes, my sweet villain, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can." (284)

"Sweet Jude. You are my dearest punishment." (285)

"You know, that ought to be reassuring. But when mortals say it, it doesn't mean the same thing as when the Folk do, does it? For you, it's an appeal. A kind of hopeful magic. You say I will be well because you fear I won't be." (288)

"Oh, how many times I have wished that you couldn't lie? Never more than now." (289)

"Marry me. Become the Queen of Elfhame." (304)

"Maybe I wouldn't have to be afraid to love him." (305)

"I will lie down, if you lie with me." (308)

"I have become the Queen of Faerie." (308)

"Hear my judgment, I 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." (316)

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my favorite cruel prince quotes! + pg numbers. cruel prince by @hollyblack

"The servants are overfond of telling me how fortunate I am, a bastard daughter of a faithless wife, a human without a drop of faerie blood, to be treated like a trueborn child of Faerie. They tell Taryn much the same thing. I know it's an honor to be raised alongside the Gentry's own children. A terrifying honor, of which I will never be worthy. it would be hard to forget it, with all the reminders I am given." (10)

"Passing us, Cardan kicks dirt onto my food right before I put it in my mouth. The other faeries laugh." (28)

"I do not yearn to be their equal. In my heart, I yearn to best them." (31)

"But I am done with being weak. I am done with being good. I think I am going to be something else." (43)

"These clothes are a costume for me. I am playing dress-up in ignorance." (55)

"You defied me. More than once. Your only hope is to throw yourself on my mercy in front of everyone. Do it, or I will keep on hurting you until there is nothing left to hurt." (76)

"Because you're like a story that hasn't happened yet." (101)

"He lifts my hand- the same one Cardan had stabbed with the pin- and kisses the very tips of my fingers." (102)

"I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone." (148)

"Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear." (197)

"If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse." (210)

"But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them." (219)

"For a moment, all I want to do is lie down myself. But I still have to dig." (219)

"If you hurt me , I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back." (231)

"Rotting near Madoc's stables. I killed him, and then I buried him. So believe me when I threaten you. No matter how unlikely it seems, you are the most important person in all of Faerie. Whoever has you, has power. And I want power." (258)

"I hate how I feel around him, the irrational panic when I touch his skin." (262)

"Prince Cardan Is my prisoner. I get to decide what happens to him." (267)

"There are so many broken things that I don't know how to fix. But I know how to fight." (276)

"Was it fun to deceive me? Did you like the feeling of having something over me? Did you like that he was flirting and kissing me and all the while promising you would be his wife?" (276)

"We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night. But to hold a blade in my hand, a blade like the one that killed our parents, and think it was a toy, she'd have to believe I was heartless." (286)

"Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be- and how dangerous that is." (298)

"Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop." (307)

"I change the angle of the knife, turning it so it's against his neck. He doesn't look nearly as alarmed by that as I might expect. Not nearly as alarmed as when I bring my mouth to his." (307)

"I expect her to say The Liar. She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets." (365)

"I will be your puppet. You rule." (370)

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