The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown #1)

by Hannah F. Whitten

No one is more patient than the dead. —Auverrani proverb

men generally preferred you to be a set piece in the story they made up, rather than an active player.

The one who can stab you quickest is the one to whom you give a knife. —Kirythean proverb

“A foxglove for a foxglove.” Bastian handed it to her with a bow and a flourish. “Beautiful and poisonous. Much like yourself, if I may be so bold as to make an assessment after our brief acquaintance.”

People who thought they’d been saved tended to deify the savior.

“Good night, Mort.” “Good night, heretic.”

“I feel like hoping Nyxara’s afterlife isn’t terrible might be some kind of blasphemy.” “If grace is blasphemous, build me a pyre.”

“Are you so accustomed to being used that you don’t realize when it’s happening, as long as it’s done kindly?”

Every shape of affection can maim but a triangle’s formed most like a blade. —Bar song lyric