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Spilling your coffee is the adult equivalent to losing your balloon as a child. Don’t judge my tears. —Bellamy’s Secret Thoughts
“Look. It stopped raining, and there’s a rainbow . . . It’s beautiful.” “Yeah . . . it is.” She’ll never know I was looking at her, not the ocean.
Thousands of people will come in and out of your life and mean nothing. But it’s the one you never saw coming who changes everything.
One day you’re going to meet the reason you never settled, and it will all make sense. —Bellamy’s Secret Thoughts
“Oh, you sweet summer child . . .” She lowers her voice enough so only I can hear and sighs. “The entire world is going to be looking in the blink of an eye. Part of your job is to be ready for the blink.” My heart sinks like a lead balloon. The entire world. Because I married the king. When I was drunk . . . My mother will be so proud.
“You are the love of my life, little bee. You. Not my country. Not my crown. You. I just want you.”
“I never thought I’d walk away from this country for anything in the world. Until I met you and you became my world. I don’t want to do it, but if they force my hand, I will.”
“Look at your phones. The vote is in. They passed the amendment. Rhys doesn’t have to abdicate, and thanks to you, queen bee, I’m no longer second in line to the throne. Fuck yes. The world is good and kind and fair, and I don’t have to fucking rule it.” He starts muttering under his breath as he walks away with the weight of an entire country lifted from his shoulders. “Where are you going, brother?” Rhys calls out as he turns back to me. Atticus looks over his shoulder, sweet relief reflecting back at us. “To the Seven Swords to celebrate. You coming with?”
A king doesn’t protect his queen because she’s weak. He protects her because she is his. —Rhys’s Secret Thoughts
And when it is all over, if I’m asked what good I did in my life, I will say I loved you. —Rhys’s Secret Thoughts
