I have a confession,” Kai mumbled into her hair. She tilted her head to peer at him. “Careful. There could be paparazzi hiding behind these trees. Any confessions might end up on tomorrow’s newsfeeds.” He pretended to consider this for a moment, eyes twinkling, before he said, “I could live with that.” She.
Oh, Cinder, I’ve missed seeing your face when you make sarcastic comments in an attempt to hide your true feelings about me.” “Please.” Rolling her eyes, Cinder started organizing the guns against the wall. “See that eye roll? It translates to ‘How am I possibly keeping my hands off you, Captain?’” “Yeah, keeping them from strangling you.” Kai folded his arms, grinning. “How come no one told me I had such steep competition?” Cinder glared. “Don’t encourage him.” With.
His dads would call it denial. His team would call it his typical, uncanny optimism. But Adrian couldn’t help it. The truth was, he did not believe that Nightmare was dead.
That would imply we give our hearts away willingly, and I am not sure that is the case.
I pictured to myself the Queen of Hearts as a sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion – a blind and aimless Fury. – LEWIS CARROLL.
I cannot tell you how I look forward to a lifetime at your side, and all th and impossible things I’ll have you believing in.
Don’t try to push your swoony psychodrama on me.
She knew it wasn’t real. She knew the holograph wouldn’t hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren’t real was often the most dangerous thing of all.
Cheshire’s yellow eyes slitted as he held her gaze for one beat, two. Then he began to unravel from the tip of his tail, a slow unwinding of his stripes. ‘These things do not happen in dreams, dear girl,’ he said, vanishing up to his neck. ‘They happen only in nightmares.
Try princess?” He smirked up at her. “I can’t seem to think of much else.
She thought there would be comfort in knowing there was nothing you could do to avoid death. Those who came before the queen having already accepted their fate seemed to have an easier time of it.
I am a criminal mastermind,” she murmured, “and I’m here to take down this regime.” Thorne grinned at her. “That’s my line.” “I know,” she said. “I stole it.
Scarlet’s hand instinctively went to her lower back, where a small pistol was warm against her skin. Her grandma had given it to her on her eleventh birthday with the paranoid warning: You just never know when a stranger will want to take you somewhere you don’t mean to go.
Kai reached forward and took her hand, and before she realized what was happening, he had plucked her away from her stepmother and stepsister and taken her into his arms. They were dancing.
She’s one of us now, whether she likes it or not.
I have no idea what I’m doing.
Scars, scars. She was coming to have so many. She wondered if it was wrong to be proud of them.
He looked terrified as he snaked his hand beneath her arm, entwining their fingers together. Their hands fit like a lock and key. It had been years since they had simply held hands, and she wished they had never stopped.
Anything is possible when you know the way through the Looking Glass!
He had known this was inevitable.