I’m going to tell her I’ve fallen for one of my captors and the wedding is off.
A true queen is made not in times of prosperity, but in times of hardship.
It’s not all black and white, good and bad. Peoples actions... their motives... there are” – he circled his hands in the air – “gray areas.
I know you must be hurting now, but don’t give up hope on future happiness, and all the good things that are still to come for you.
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
I’ve heard that when citizens are unruly, there’s usually a good reason for it.
Something about him seemed crafted for her, and that thought made her face flame, like she was standing too close to a fire.
Levana had not seen the bodies, but she had seen the bedrooms the next morning, and her first thought was that all that blood would make for a very pretty rouge on her lips.
Brave, stupid girl,” Thorne muttered. He sank back down to the floor, his expression torn between relief and increased distress.
There is no safer place for me than at your side.
But just before their lips touched, Thorne thrust his hand in between them, receiving dual kisses on his fingers. Wolf and Scarlet jerked back.
We may be animals, but we will never again live in your cage.
Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.
It was difficult to be polite when you wanted to run away.
She loved him more than ever. And not because she’d scoured file after file of reports and summaries and data and photographs. Not because he was the dreamy, untouchable Carswell Thorne that she’d imagined kissing on the banks of a starlit river while fireworks exploded overhead and violins played in the background. Now he was the Carswell Thorne who had given her strength in the desert. Who had come for her when she was kidnapped. Who had kissed her when hope was lost and death was imminent.
Don’t worry about her. It was only her birthday, after all. This was only her party.
And the moral of that is “Once a goldfish, forever a goldfish.
Lunar. Cyborg. Fugitive. Outlaw. Outcast.
I’m still thanking all the stars, one by one.
With pleasure,” Kinney deadpanned. “In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor.” Iko shrugged. “If you don’t want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles.