I’m sure I’ll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.
Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.
Soon, the whole world would be searching for her -Linh Cinder. A deformed cyborg with a missing foot. A Lunar with a stolen identity. A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go. But they will be looking for a ghost.
But you’re the only one, Scarlet. You’ll always be the only one.
Prince Kai! Check my fan, I think I’m overheating.
I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.
Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?
Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.
I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince you to go with me tonight, then maybe I could still change things. It’s dumb, I know. It’s not like Levana cares if I, you know, might have actual feelings for someone.
Right,? said Kai, ’that’ll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I’ll get right on that.
That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I’m afraid I already knew that about you.