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I don’t want to be saved by some knight in shining armor. I’d like to be the one in the armor, and I’d like to be the one doing the saving.
I was twelve when I told my parents that I would much rather find a princess than a prince.
“My whole life has been a buildup to this. This isn’t some little thing. Everything I do, everything I say, it’s all about the ball. My path has been chosen for me since birth. My future is already written, and I don’t have a say in any of it.”
“Happiness is a bonus, Sophia. You’re not entitled to it, and the sooner you accept that, the easier your life will be.”
“That’s how things happen sometimes,” Constance says thoughtfully. “Something small. A choice we make because, in the moment, we needed to make it. But that doesn’t mean it’s any less important. I believe that things happen for a reason, Sophia. If you hadn’t left the ball when you did, we never would have met.”
“The palace underestimates the resourcefulness of women forced into a dark and dangerous place.”
“I think we need to burn the whole thing to the ground and start over. The entire system, the ideals that have been woven into this society. It all has to go.”
“If my life could serve a purpose,” the woman begins, raising her head a little and looking directly at the king, “then let this be it. I would die to give even just one person the chance to be free from you.”
Constance wields her power like a sword, a power that I didn’t even know we could have. I’m in awe of her.
Take the risk, light the fuse. Onward.”
“When the leader of this kingdom treats women as property, it sets an awful precedent. People think it’s okay to do the same.”
“A prison is still a prison no matter how pretty the decor,”
The most monstrous of men are those who sit in plain sight, daring you to challenge them.
Understand that what King Manford, in all his incarnations, feared the most was the will of the people he so desperately wanted to control. Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark.
