The Ragpicker King (The Chronicles of Castellane, #2)

by Cassandra Clare

a close-cut dress that held her body like a lover’s hands.

the Prince is watching a red-haired girl read a book with the expression of a starving man staring at a plate of food.

He had known it would hurt to be away from her, but not how much it would hurt to be close: to be always reminded that he knew her and did not know her at the same time.