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forursmiles:

Reasons to read Captive Prince it has quotes like

• What’s a death but easy, quick. It’s supposed to haunt you forever that the one time he beat you was the one time that mattered.
• I don’t share your craven habit of hitting only those who cannot hit back, and take no pleasure in hurting those weaker than myself.
• Like a man who enjoys owning an animal who will rake others with its claws but eat peacefully from his own hand, he was giving his pet a great deal of license.
• A golden prince was easy to love if you did not have to watch him picking wings off flies.

It also has quotes like

• You hit like a milk-fed catamite.
• How lucky I am to have servants to point out my shortcomings.
• “Is there anyone at this court who isn’t my enemy?’
  ‘Not if I can help it,’ Laurent said.
• Laurent could inspire homicidal tendencies simply by breathing.
• Nephew. you were not invited to these discussions.’
  ‘And yet, here I am. It’s very irritating, isn’t it?’
• Damen had never before seen half a dozen soldiers reduced to compliant housekeeping by the sheer force of one man’s personal arrogance.
• Yesterday I brutalised him. Today I am swooning into his arms. I would prefer the charges against me to be consistent. Pick one. 
• Yes, apparently I have fucked my enemy, conspired against my future interests, and colluded in my own murder. I can’t wait to see what feats I will perform next.