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.
Haz uso de tu poder sin que parezca que lo tienes.
Only to see Oak, the heir to Elfhame, standing in a clearing. All my memories of him were of a merry young boy. But he’d become tall and rawboned, in the manner of children who have grown suddenly and too fast. When he moved, it was with coltish uncertainty, as though not used to his body. He would be thirteen. And he had no reason to be in my woods.
Rays of sunlight strike the snow, melting an ice layer that freezes and re-forms every day. As I take a step, I feel the sheet break, a craquelure spreading from my feet.
I hated you,” Jude reassures him, bringing her mouth to his.
Cardan doesn’t add that he laughs when he is nervous.
I am trembling. I bite the inside of my cheek to ground myself in pain that I cause. This feels entirely too familiar, to wait for punishment from a capricious ruler.
You will not always be so small or so frightened,′ she told me. ‘You are a queen.
The more they get away with, the more they believe they’re entitled to have.
Charmers are charming, but that’s all they are.
Maybe being human isn’t always being weak.
I feel all around me the closing of a trap, and yet I do not think I am the one who is meant to be caught.
They say that he can talk flowers into opening their petals at night, as though his face were that of the sun. He’ll steal your heart.
Good.” said Hazel. “Boy son the Internet lie.” “All boys lie,” Ben said. “And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don’t pretend you don’t.
Everyone wants magic. It’s not just me.
No one remembers the language they took in high school.
For a moment, I stare at him stupidly. I am reeling from the kiss, from the swiftness of the violence. I am not yet used to Oak’s ability to kill without hesitation and then chagrined about it, as though he did something in slightly poor taste. Spilled a rare vintage of wine, perhaps. Mismatched his trousers to his shirt.
I am a solitary creature, fated to be one and better as one. Forgetting that is what got me into trouble.
Perhaps I cannot be glamoured, but that doesn’t mean I cannot be broken.” -The Wicked Prince.
Greetings, Your Majesty, you betraying toad.