The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

by Samantha Shannon

What the Inysh did not know was that it was Cleolind, not Galian, who had banished the Nameless One. They knew nothing of the orange tree.

‘You have not seen death, my lord. You have only seen the mask we put on it.’

forenoon,

different word for it, I think. That one makes me sound like a field stripped of its crop. A waste with nothing left to give.’ She was right. It was a cruel way to describe a person.

Who in the world wears white on their wedding day?’

A woman is more than a womb to be seeded.