I like you too, despite my better judgment.” “You’d be surprised how often I hear that.
His hair was getting longer, bordering on unkempt. As a prince, he’d always been groomed to near perfection. But then he became an emperor. The weeks since his coronation had been spent trying to stop a war, hunt down a wanted fugitive, avoid getting married, and endure his own kidnapping. As a result, haircuts became a dispensable luxury. She.
Many of his coworkers on Luna had made lucrative side businesses offering plastic surgery, melatonin adjustments, and body reconstruction.
From here on, I’ll have to wing it.” She examined the mess of wires, aligning it with a diagram over her retina display. “Not like that hasn’t been my primary tactic this whole time.
This girl really was crazy.
The shopkeeper called her brave and beautiful. Jacin called her blinding. It was kind of nice to know that they were both wrong.
This was a real question, from a real emperor, who had the real future of his country to consider. If she wanted to be a part of his future, she’d have to be a part of it all. “I would consider it,” she said, then took in the first full breath she’d taken in days. “Someday.” His grin returned, full force and full of relief. He.
Just, please” – he lowered his voice – “for all the skies, don’t complain to Tamaya without talking to me first, because she is an adamant abuser of the phrase ‘told you so,’ and no one needs that, you know what I mean?
There are no unimportant jobs,” said Nova, leaning the mop against Snapshot’s desk, “only pretentious, small-minded individuals who seek to inflate their own importance by demoralizing everyone else.
Wishes have value, Lady Pinkerton. You have my gratitude.
These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,” he said vanishing up to his neck. “They happen only in nightmares.
What?′ said Oscar. ‘You’re not going to remark on all the mind-blowing things I can do?’ Ruby gestured halfheartedly in Oscar’s direction. ‘Oscar can eat two extra-large pizzas in one sitting while quoting the entire third season of Star Avengers from memory.’ Oscar nodded solemnly. ‘It’s hard to believe I even exist.
Cress had built a thousand fantasies around their rooftop kiss, but this kiss was something new. Where before, the kiss had been gentle and protective, now there was something passionate. Determined. Cress’s body dissolved into nothing but sensation.
I’m not your enemy.
We can’t choose where our affections lie.
As soon as he was gone, Levana whipped the veil off her head and threw it onto the settee. “The young emperor has been kidnapped, and from his own palace. Earthens are pathetic. It’s amazing they haven’t already become extinct.
They passed a netscreen that showed a commercial for a shampoo that claimed to change the color of one’s hair based on their moods.
I’ll fight the Gargoyle.
The desperation melted and, for the briefest of moments, the ulterior motives were gone. She found herself kissing him for no other reason than she wanted to. She wanted him to know that she wanted to. She didn’t realize how badly she wanted Kai to kiss her back until it became quite clear that he wouldn’t.
Love is a conquest. Love is a war. That is all it is.