14 Astounding Quotes from The Wicked King

It is often said that the line between hatred and love is a thin one. Cardan and Jude showed love with their words of contempt because the armors they wore to protect themselves were secure yet suffocating.

It means that no matter how tempting it is, murdering someone can never be the solution to every problem. One must always look for other alternatives.

The more Cardan hated Jude, the more she retaliated. The more she retaliated, the more in love he fell. He had realized that if liking her was the problem, expecting her actions to get rid of that attractiveness would not solve his issue (it might also be because he was drunk).

Cardan and Jude professed their love for each other in cruel whispers of contempt. They had spent so long being against each other that despite the attachment, the hatred was much easier to summon.

Enduring through the pain that the challenges of life inflict on you is what makes a person stronger and enhances their growth.

While it was clear that Cardan had a drinking problem, it was also clear that he was more unhinged during those moments. Or maybe he just enjoyed mocking Jude, which is more likely.

In order to win, one must deal one significant blow after the other, each harsher than the one before it. And one has to be strong enough to bear with their weapons and withstand the long process.

Cardan’s group made sure they threatened and humiliated the mortals as much as they could. And while all of those were done by him, making one of his victims fall in love with him was perhaps the worst of them all.

Jude was her father’s daughter: the same father who had killed her birth parents and brought them to Elfhame under his care. Murder may not run in their blood, but it did run in their minds.

Perhaps an early confession that Jude hadn’t caught on to. It could also be because she had a difficult time trusting her puppet king. But it is true that all the signals flaring in your body from the first signs of danger are the same tell-tale ones that start ringing in front of your crush.

As you grow up, the support a person has in their childhood starts getting scarce because they’re expected to get used to treading the dangerous journey of life. One cannot run their bikes on training wheels forever if they want to speed up.

Cardan regularly saw how his elder brother, Balekin, treated the mortals around him, which further wound his feelings for Jude up.

Beauty is not just the outward appearance. The innate personality that one carries is a part of it too. In a land of immortals, each prettier than the last, Cardan fell in love with a mortal who found every chance to rebel against him, the Prince. Jude, therefore, also fell in love with every part of Cardan, even the ones that she believed to have hated her.

It’s somewhat in our nature to only value the things that are rare. We love chasing after the things that others do not have or are scarcer than a blue moon.