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Morris’s broken teeth lie like pearls in the cracks of the cobbled street. “Should we pick those up and return them to him?” I ask. “Maybe put them on a string he can wear around his neck?”
I’ve forgotten how funny Kalynn is. Lol
We are all trapped here, our stories already written.
His suit is the color of freshly bloomed marigolds and is so tight it looks like it’s been painted on. The fabric creeps into all his creases, and I see outlines of things that make me wish I could poke my eyes out.
Lmbo
One man stands quite still, gazing out into the crowd. I know him. Luke.
Wtf 😳
“I bet he thinks his name is Shit,” I say to Luke. “It’s the first thing you say whenever you see him.”
Lmbo
“How did one family end up with two complete fools in the same generation?”
Lol
“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.”
Love love love this
“It’s risky,” says Constance, reading my expression. “But sometimes that’s the only way to get things done. Take the risk, light the fuse. Onward.”
“I haven’t figured out how to make you look at me the way you did when I was standing by the fire back at the house. I don’t know that anyone has ever looked at me that way.” She bites her bottom lip as if she’s said too much.
Baby!!! You ain’t said nothing but a word. lol
“When the leader of this kingdom treats women as property, it sets an awful precedent. People think it’s okay to do the same.”
Yup. Monkey see, monkey do.
“Wait a damn minute!” Amina’s voice comes out of the little man. “It’s me, you fool!”
We’ve decided that, while I walk through the front door, Constance will try to gain entry in secret and make her way to the row of cells where I’d heard a voice from behind the locked door.
Chile...I forgot about that door. lol
Don’t do what is right because they hold those titles. Do what is right because they are people. Make a choice to change things.”
“You’ve sat idly by while the people of Mersailles suffered and died, and now you want a say in what happens to us?”
You damn right!
The transition was fast, and of course, some rebelled. The council considered making changes slowly over time, but ultimately decided that the equal treatment of Mersailles’s citizens was far more important than some people’s inability to handle those changes.
As it should be, when making change for the betterment of humanity
in all his incarnations, feared the most was the will of the people he so desperately wanted to control.
Be a light in the dark.
Love it
