Jordanne

“None of them can tell me a thing," my father says. "What use are sea wardens if they don't warden the damn sea?”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“And the plague gathered strength as it was transmitted from the sick to the healthy through normal intercourse, just as fire catches on to any dry or greasy object placed too close to it. Nor did it stop there: not only did the healthy incur the disease and with it the prevailing mortality by talking to or keeping company with the sick--they had only to touch the clothing or anything else that had come into contact with or been used by the sick and the plague evidently was passed to the one who handled those things.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

“Technically, I’m a murderer, but I like to think that’s one of my better qualities.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Lies aren't answers."
"But they sound so much better than the truth.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom