A Crown This Cold and Heavy (Kingdom of Lies, #3)

by Stacia Stark

“It’s much easier to give advice about other people’s lives than it is to navigate your own.”

“You don’t have to talk about it today. Or tomorrow. Or three months from now. You don’t even have to talk about it with me. But you won’t spend the rest of your life ignoring what has happened to you, Prisca. Because one day—likely a day you won’t get to pick—you’ll be forced to face it. All that pain you’re hiding away will be as fresh as the day you decided to turn it to rage. And right when you need to be strong the most, that pain will cripple you.”

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion. Those people will believe you even when the truth is dancing naked in front of them. Because to believe otherwise would mean their entire world has always been a lie. And that realization is too difficult for most people to take.”