A rundown of my favorite "The Queen of Nothing" moments<33333
• Does he have a new seneschal? Does he have a new lover? <…> Does he talk about me?…
• “Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's hearts.” I feel like Jude agreed with Heather at that moment:/
• “You,” I say to my twin. “Get out.” YOU GO GIRL
• “Locke is dead” LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS THE MOMENT WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR
• The very thought of being there, of seeing Cardan, speeds my heart. Oh juuuuude
• "I knew you liked her," says Locke. "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?" "I recall that your hands were on her, but her eyes were on me," Cardan returns. I FUCKING LOVE THIS
• "I loved him." "Sometimes I believed that you did, yes," Cardan says absently. AND THE FACT THAT HE KNEW IT WAS JUDE
• "Jude never loved Locke." "She loved someone else. He's the one she'd want dead.” —or in her bed who knows;)?!
• WHEN CARDAN SAYS HE’LL “EXAMINE” HER ALONE IN HIS CHAMBERS. Naughtyyy boy;)
• “Well, didn’t you get my letters?” “What letters?” THIS LITERALLY RIPS MY HEART OUT AND TEARS IT TO SHREDS
• "Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh." *Crying, screaming, throwing up*
• When Cardan tries to explain the exile to her and that it was all a trick that she was supposed to figure out and be proud of him, but he doesn’t have enough time… :(
• 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 mine.
• The fact that even when The Ghost betrayed her, when Jude found him she still wanted to save him!!! SHE’S THE BEST
• I'm not going to let myself get distracted by letters I never received or the way he looked at me when we were alone in his rooms or my father's theories about his weaknesses. I’m a tad speechless…
• WHEN THE ROACH COMES TO SAVE HER WITH CARDAAAAN!!! AND FOR HER HE LOOKS EVERY INCH A SPY FROM THE COURT OF SHADOWS
• “That boy is your weakness” OH WOW stupid Madoc is right about one thing. SHOCKER.
• Let Cardan not be shot. Let the Ghost be clumsy. Let me get inside easily. Let me stop him.
I do not pause to ask myself why I am in such a panic to save someone for whom I swore I rooted out every feeling. I will not think about that. Oh, sweetheart.
• “Do not touch her. She is my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. “The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile." CHILLS. literal chills.
• Cardan stands over me. <…> His white sleeves are rolled up, and he’s washing my hands with a wet cloth. My gods, i’m dying, he cares about her so much
• (about the gown)>> It is perhaps too plain for a queen, but Cardan is extravagant enough for both of us.
• “And the next thing we know, the High King is on our doorstep looking ready to tear down the whole apartment complex to find you” AAGHAHAHA I LOVE HIM
• “It was terrifying watching you fall. I mean you’re generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before”
• “I was afraid of you when I had a knife to your throat” this tore my heart open
• “This is my room” he points out, affronted “And that’s my wife”. FUCK YEAH “So you keep telling everyone” the bomb says AAAHAH LOVE HER
• “Oh, I don’t know,” I say “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream”. oh he would “I would” Cardan says “And perhaps one day I will” I’M FOLDED.
• “Unlike Locke, I never thought love was a game” he says “You may accuse me of much, but not that” oh boy
• “I offer my queen’s hospitality. The hospitality of knives” ah, yes, badass jude
• “You looked like a knight in a story tonight” I’M ON MY KNEES CRYING. THIS IS TOO CUTE.
• “By you, I am forever undone” I AM SCREAAAAMINGGGGGG
• “My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned”
• “It’s you I love” he says “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 is yours” ABSOLUTELY MELTINGGGGG
• I can’t believe he said that and then just walked out, leaving me reeling. I am going to strangle him. I adore her
• When the bomb hugs her once they see each other, when Cardan was turned into a snake.
• “Please. I will do whatever you want. I will give up the crown. I will make any bargain. Just please fix him. Help me break the curse” im gonna cry
• I was happy, just before everything went so terribly wrong. This is gut wrenching
• They won. Everything was going to work out. AND HE LOVED HER
• “I would settle for even his worst self, his cruelest trickster self, if only he could be here” THIS IS ENEMIES TO LOVERS AHAAHAHA
• The Ghost’s eyebrows rise, and he glances at me. I grin.
• Like the whole thing how the Roach is telling the Bomb that he loves her is hilarious and super cute.
• The way Jude thinks that she can never tell Cardan how she feels is so sad. If Holly black had actually killed him off I would have died with him.
• “With my whole heart, I wish Cardan was here” she is longing for his annoyance I CANNNOT
• WHEN NICASIA TOLD HER THAT HE SENT THE GOWN I WAS SCREAMING MY GODSsss “He never told you, did he?”
• “And I saw the way you used to look at him when you didn’t think anyone was watching you” AAAH YESSS
• He’s every bit as terrifying as any serpent. i don’t care. I run into his arms. IM ON THE FLOOR SOBBING
• He holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world. im absolutely dead in the best way possible
• “You don’t want me dead” “If you joke about this, I am going to—“ “Kill me?” I think I might hate him after all Thin line between love and hate, right Jude;)
• “I knew little else, but I always knew you” MY HEART IS EXPLODING
• And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again. MY HEART SQUEEZED IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY
• When Cardan silences Randalin when he interrupts Jude. You tell them KING
• THEY’RE CELEBRATING THAT THEY GOT MARRIED YEYYYYYYYYY
• When Cardan adjust his crown and she rolLs HeR eYeS and HE GRINS.
• To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.
i’m absolutely in love with these series🤍
