And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

by Kiersten White

She kept a pleasant smile on her own, kept her hands loosely folded in her lap, kept control. Control was power. No one would make her lose it.

You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”

No one will kill you. But if they kill you, I will be alone. And I will want to die.

How, then, must it feel to want a someone as much as she wanted a something, and to know that someone would never want you?

You love him like a flower loves the sun.”

Do not ever think you are on their side, because they are not on yours. They fight to gain land, prestige, and wealth. We fight because it is the only thing given to us.”