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Hope is addictive, and you start relying on it. In a world this cruel, I won’t be caught needing a crutch.
“If you wanted to pose as one of Arya’s handmaids, you should’ve at least bothered to learn what colors she dresses them in.” I can only interpret the shaking of his chest as a silent chuckle. “Or to know that she’d never take on a handmaiden more beautiful than she is.”
“The cruel king waits for the day the princess of shadows will come to his castle.” I’d forgotten this tale—one our mother told us only once, the night before she left for Faerie. “The false king knew she could command the shadows, but he didn’t know that her big heart and her endless love would cost him his throne.”
“Next time she dies, it has to be during a bonding ceremony. Otherwise, she’ll never be queen.”
When you were reading, you were somewhere else. You were someone else.”
“Easy, Princess, focus on the magic. When we’re out of here, you can go back to imagining all the ways you want my hands on you.”
“That no matter how hopeless I feel, there’s always a little more hope inside me. That no matter how faithless I think I am, there is always something to believe in.”
“May you always have a star to wish on, Abriella, and a reason to believe.” He begins to fade into the darkness.
