Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

by Marissa Meyer

He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of her realm, her world, that she should have stopped thinking about him the second the door had closed. Should stop thinking about him immediately.

“She wants to come here? Now? It hasn’t even been fifteen minutes!”

Of all the girls in the whole city, she was… The most convenient.

A made-up history. A made-up girl.

He would be mortified. She would be mortified.

“All dressed up with nowhere to go,”

His expression was too genuine, too sure. Her nerves tingled. “Stars,” she muttered. “Didn’t you already ask me that?”

And I seem to be getting more desperate by the minute.” “How charming.”

and they all fell into an awkward hush and stared at the prince and the girl in the baggy cargo pants he was flirting with. Flirting.

“It’s not that I don’t want to go with you, it’s that I’m not going at all.” “So you do want to go with me.”

“I feel like I’m going to ruin everything,” he said.

I mean, really, how much harm can one man possibly do all on his own?” Kai half laughed.

Not after I’ve ignored six of your comms in the last week. Are you dense?” “So you did get them!”

if I’d known you were going to embargo me for asking you on a date, I wouldn’t have dared.”

Short of my unplugging the processor on one of my androids, this could be the last time we ever see each other.”

“Well, I’m sure I could have come home faster, except someone stole my foot.”

It was not her fault he had liked her.

She would not apologize.

Don’t do it. I’m not worth it, you know that.