The girl has proven herself to be more clever than I would have given her credit for.” Kai dragged his hand through his hair, extinguishing an unexpected spark of pride.
He cursed. “Princess, you have got to stop collecting these rebels.
Wait,” said Winter as Scarlet nudged the podship forward. Scarlet’s heart dropped. “What?” she said, scanning the port for a thaumaturge, a guard, a threat. Winter reached over and pulled the pilot’s harness over Scarlet’s head. “Safety first, Scarlet-friend. We are fragile things.
I wanted a quiet, intimate wedding, not a circus.” Thorne leaned against the staircase rail. “It’s the first known Lunar-Earthen wedding in generations, the groom is a bioengineered wolf-human hybrid, and you invited the emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth and an ex–Lunar Queen. What did you expect?” Scarlet glared at him. “I am marrying the man that I love, and I invited my friends to celebrate with us. I expected a little bit of privacy.
She had always been astonished by people who could fall asleep fast, like there was nothing to it. Like their spirits weren’t burdened with suffering and resentment. Like their hearts and minds could so easily be at peace.
Broken isn’t the same as UN-fixable.
Just one more fantasy that wouldn’t come true. Just one more lie she’d constructed for herself to escape into, never realizing she was welding the bars of her own cage.
Thorne scoffed. “Careful is my middle name. Right after Suave and Daring.
The terror of it was in the randomness. The brutality and the senseless way they chose their victims, while leaving so many witnesses to spread the fear. No one was safe. No one was ever safe.
Kate could not have looked any more stunned if he’d just proposed that they move to Colombia State together and become coffee bean farmers.
First, we’re going to find a way to get into Artemisia. We’re going to find Cress and rescue Cinder and Wolf. We’re going to overthrow Levana, and by the stars above, we are going to make Cinder a queen so she can pay us a lot of money from her royal coffers and we can all retire very rich and very alive, got it?
At first I thought, why, he might be a perfect little match for my perfect little girl.
Kai and Thorne were there, too, each of them standing with their hands in their pockets, rocking back on their heels with supremely smug looks on their faces, like they were daring anyone to suggest it wasn’t the most beautiful impromptu wedding ever created. And they had done a marvelous job – much better than Cinder would have expected.
I am not empty. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overlfowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow onto you.
Or maybe it was just Winter, who could make a rock fall in love with her if she smiled at it the right way.
Cath lifted her chin and, for the first time, dared to imagine herself a queen.
Her body became liquid, and she thought, if they could bottle him, he would make the best pain medication.
I appreciate the confidence, Your Imperial Psychologist, but we’re way beyond that. Cress if over me and... it’s for the best.
Yes,” he said firmly. “We are obviously soul mates. Now please, stand up.” “You’ve probably told lots of girls you loved them.” “Well, yeah, but I would have reconsidered if I’d known you were going to hold it against me.
Why is a raven like a writing desk? They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.