Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)

by Marissa Meyer

“You may be an idiot, but I assure you, you’re quite a lovable one.”

It was their seventeenth kiss (her brain interface was keeping a tally, somewhat against her will),

That's actually kind of cute🤭

It was unnerving, to think she was being psychoanalyzed by someone who frequently complained that the castle walls had started bleeding again.

She stifled a sigh, realizing she was going to have to train herself not to stare at him quite as often as she was used to, otherwise there would be no chance of hiding the fact that, despite all his attempts to persuade her otherwise, she was still hopelessly in love with him.

Levana already knows I’m too close to you, that I care about you more than I should—”

I care about you more than I should.

After the first ring was completed, she leaned her head against his thigh, making herself more comfortable as she picked out a sunburst orange. Overhead, Jacin sighed, and she felt the faintest brush of fingertips against her hair. A hint, a suggestion of togetherness, before he became a statue once more.

“Oh, Cinder, I’ve missed seeing your face when you make sarcastic comments in an attempt to hide your true feelings about me.”

Thorne is so funny😭😭😭

“Do I get a good-bye kiss too?”

“Wolf’s not the only one who can throw a right hook around here.”

“It took them a week, huh? Cress could have laid out my whole biography within hours.”

Thievery isn’t easy, you know.”

It’s when I’m idle the monsters come.”

“Your input is the only input that matters,”

“Oh, I fully intend to form an alliance with Luna.”

“Wolf, Thorne, the second a thaumaturge sees either of you they’ll try to control you.”

“I’ve been waiting for you to admit you wanted my body,”

I am a vision of tranquility and indifference.

For my next trick, I will win a staring contest with the moron in orange sunglasses.

We think that if we choose to do only good, then we are only good. We can make people happy. We can offer tranquility or contentment or love, and that must be good. We do not see the falsehood becoming its own brand of cruelty.”

“Scarlet—they took you, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I didn’t know if you were dead, or if they were…”

“I would have killed every one of them to get to you. I would have done anything to get you back. Knowing that we were coming here was the only thing that kept me sane.”

“Selene is more beautiful than you could ever be.”

Aimery had intended for Maha’s death to act as a warning to anyone who sided with Cinder, but here, at least, it had the opposite effect.

Cinder squinted. “I passed out from stress? That’s it?” “I believe the princess term is fainted,” said Thorne. Cinder smacked him.

Their friendship is so funny😭😭😭

“I am a criminal mastermind,”

“and I’m here to take down this regime.”

“That’s my...

“I k...

“I stol...

Computers only do what you tell them to do. The gun will only fire if you pull the trigger.

“But I’m pretty sure that as long as you’re a princess in need of protecting, you’re going to be stuck with me.”

“There is no safer place for me than at your side.”

“I think … I think we’re under attack.”

“Obviously we’re under attack!”

“And you’re that disturbing robot.”

“The correct term is escort-droid, you ignorant, inconsiderate—”

“Wow,”

“He’s pretty and smart.”

“Well,”

“my heart is half synthetic, so it’ll probably give her indigestion.”

“Love is a conquest. Love is a war.

She was the queen of Luna.

“Take your time recovering. The hard part is over.”

“Is it?”

“You’ll have to get used to people kneeling to you. It kind of comes with the territory.” “I’m going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is by giving a high five.” Kai’s smile brightened. “That’s genius. Me too.”

You’re the lost princess that saved them from the reign of Empress Levana. I heard there’s a toy company that wants to make action figures of you. And they want to put up a statue where your booth used to be at the market.”