"it's a metaphor."

• Cardan constantly thinking about how he ended up with Jude 🥺❤
• "His unpredictable, bold mortal High Queen" 🥺🥺🥺
• "You think you're the equal of a battalion of knights?"
• JUST ALL THE JURDAN BANTER OKAY
• Somebody please go looking for my boy and tell him stories 💔💔💔
• Cardan and his door. Door and his prince ❤
• "The international incident that was her youngest brother." 😂😂😂
• Cardan winning Nicasia's favour as the first time he ever won anything 😔😔😔
• Cardan and his squad of Big Bad Villains
• Spoiled moths who demand alcohol
• The Prince of Elfhame is Mildy inconvenienved because he has a cruuuuush
• The entirety of chapter five. Every single sentence.
• "She was the only real thing in a land of ghosts." 😭😭😭😭😭
• "Jude, Cardan thought, hating even the shape of her name. Jude."
• Just. The. Entire. Chapter. Five.
• Being in the Undersea being suffocating for Cardan = SYMBOLIC of his relationship with Nicasia
• Cardan thinking of Jude even when on a date with Nicasia; "it meant nothing" yeah, sure, honey
• Rhyia giving him Alice in Wonderland
• "There was absolutely no reason to think of Jude in that moment" *proceeds to think of Jude*
• Cardan getting his heart broken by Nicasia hurt me 💔
• But what hurt me more is that he understood that she loved Locke and set her free 😔💔
• "I'm afraid I may have set one of the guests on fire" I -
• "I am nothing if not dramatic." We stan a self-aware King 🙌🏻
• "A hate you could drown in like a vat of wine"
• "It shouldn't matter. The human girls were insignificant, nothing." "Which one? Which mortal girl?" 😏😏😏😏
• "It disgusted him that he couldn't stop." [thinking about Jude]
• Cardan being fascinated with mortal food
• "Cardan considers that villainy takes many forms, and he is good at all of them."
• JUDE EATING THE HALF OF HIS DUMPLING
• Cardan with his arm around Jude's waist!!! GIVE ME MORE DOMESTIC JURDAN 😭😭😭
• They were watching kNIVE OUT!!!!
• He doesn't mind the small bed BECAUSE JUDE IS IN HIS ARMS
• Everything about tracing her features
• "I hated you." They're so in love ❤
• Cardan annoyed that Bryern didn't think he'd come for Jude
• "His queen"
• "Marriage means sharing each other's interests, and since his wife's run toward strategy and murder" 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
• Jude scheming behind his back to go after Aslog + Cardan scheming by going behind her back to do it himself
• Just these two married idiots being domestic by scheming all the time ❤
• Cardan really is a 'happy wife, happy life' kinda guy
• Cardan interested in the mortal novels
• Cardan thinking he's so good at passing for mortal while saying things like "your pardon" 😂😂😂
• Cardan not wanting to pay like a "common peasant" 😂
• CARDAN WEARING A HOODIE
• "Did she have him with butter or jam?" I WHEEZED
• He laughs when he's nervous vs all the times he laughed around Jude in the series 🥺🥺🥺
• Cardan knowing Jude would kill him if he died so pathetically 😂😂😂
• His every thought at what he should be doing being about what Jude would have done, I'm soft 🥺
• "You don't think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love?"
• My man is so in love with Jude, he out here making stories of their happily ever after
• "Truly, I don't know what I would do without her." My heart cannot handle this 🥺
• Cardan, the damsel in distress, waiting for His Wife and Queen to rescuse him >>>>>>
• JUDE'S PROTECTIVE WIFE MODE
• Not even iron poisoning can stop this man's sass
• "I don't even understand why the things you say make me smile." 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
• "So long as you're begging" on the first and the last page >>>>>

“My soul will find yours.”

“Your problem is that you still believe you own your life.”

“You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.”

“Ever met someone who brought you comfort naturally? Like when you are with them, you forget about anything bad and instantly feel good.”

“you’re taking all of this quite well.”

“so are you.”