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calling for an end to the royal line.
Maybe she was making a welcome home card.
Why can’t you be happy with who you are instead of stepping on her to make yourself feel better?”
“You never were the type to brag,” he mumbled.
Consider my predicament. I don’t have much time left.
“That’s not acceptable. I need an answer. Because I can’t send someone who really wants this—who wants me—home if you’re going to bail out in the end.”
“I’ll just go see what Kriss is doing.”
“I’m the same as ever. You’re the one who’s forgotten what it was like to live in a house with no heat.”
Instead of being bitter about what we were handed, why can’t you see the chance you have?
The pig sold his daughter to a man she hated so he could have everything he wanted.
We’d never actually replace it with a more perfect-sounding story simply for the sake of show.
Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
I felt so stupid.
“You’re done when I say you are. You’re upset right now, but you aren’t done.”
and Lady America will be last. Good luck, girls!”
“You do seem to have mastered how to pose,” I mumbled.
minimum-payment wage for some of the lower castes.
“Yes. I’m very sorry for your loss, but it appears the rebels took your sister this morning.” “What?” she whispered. “Her remains were found this afternoon. We’re sorry.”
I laughed…
wallowing in the disaster I’d created.
“But maybe it needs ruining.”
“Please don’t cry, darling. I’d spare you tears for the rest of your life if I could.”
For all we know, they just really, really like to read.” I moaned at his attempt at humor.
“A lot of things are yours, America.” I swallowed. “I need to go.”
This is what I’m talking about. I need you to accept the consequences of your actions, to trust me to make my own choice.
“You’re rude, jocular; and the one time you do something serious, it tears at the fabric of our nation. Completely thoughtless. And that’s not even counting your poor posture and gait. Kriss is far lovelier and more agreeable.”
“If she’s going to win, we need a plan.” Her smile was diabolical, and I grinned with her. I’d never met anyone as organized as these girls. If I had them, there was no way I could lose.
