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February 11 - June 12, 2024
can’t stop time. Can’t stop death.
Maybe people never changed.
No worse fate than one you beg for.
And I can’t kill you, princess. I’ve tried. I can’t.
And power was the currency of revenge.
I’ve never been better than I was when I was with you.”
I’m the brute king, and you’re the prisoner wife who hates me.
“You haven’t even stopped to think about all the things you might be capable of, Oraya.”
“You are not broken.
“Love is fucking terrifying,” he murmured. “I think that’s true no matter who you are.”
I never knew something could look so beautiful flying away.
Your soul is my soul. Your blood is my blood. Your heart is my heart.
Humans mourn time, because it’s the only currency that really matters in a life so short.
“You don’t have to be fine.”
He’d raised me to look at the bars of my cage and call them trees.
“I’ve got to believe in love,
The world is sad enough.”
“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”
it was far harder to care about something than it was to care about nothing.
“Don’t you dare stop, princess,” Raihn rasped, reading my face, the wince giving way to a twisted half smile. “Please. I don’t care if it fucking kills me.”
Or maybe I hated that, too, the same way I hated him. Not at all.
Needed her, like another bodily function.
“Loving someone else is a dangerous thing,” she said.
I’ll see you soon.
I’d had enough. My entire life, these people thought they could take everything from me. And the thought of ceding one more single second to them enraged me.
Loving Oraya was terrifying. It required me to see things I didn’t want to see. Face things I didn’t want to face. Allow another soul to witness parts of myself I didn’t even want to acknowledge.
the absence of fear was only stupidity.
Because it took a stupid kind of courage to keep
fighting even when you knew all odds were stacked against you.
Amazing what a mindset could do.
