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"You?" he finally said. "You are Princess Selene?"

*Face palm.* Stupidest...prince...ever.

I can't be on a spaceship. I have a country to run."

Honey, you're so stupid, I wouldn't let you run the dishwasher.

"Jacin Clay," she whispered. "Sybil's guard, with the blond hair and beautiful eyes and the rising sun in his smile."

Welcome to the land of painfully white fairy tale heroes.

The rooftop. The kiss. He'd kept his promise. He'd given her a kiss worth waiting for because she was about to die--they were both about to die. She know it had been a risk, and probably a stupid one. And that was the choice he'd made rather than let her died without experiencing that perfect moment.

Oh for fuck's sake, child. You have NO IDEA what real love is.

"And you think my entire opinion of you was based on one incident that happened when you were thirteen years old?"

Well, it is. You've known each other a total of what, four days?

"You're telling me that this teenage girl has not only escaped from your prison and evaded capture by your highly trained military, bu has now invaded your palace and the private quarters of the emperor himself, kidnapped him, and gotten away with it?"

Alas, Levana, it's true. You're trapped in the Fifth Circle of Lazy Writing.

Wolf had lain on his side on the lower bunk bed of one of the crew quarters, his face buried in a pillow. Cress had assumed it was his bed, until Thorne informed her it had been Scarlet's.
She pitied him, of course.

I don't. I love my hubs with passion of a billion suns, but if he dissolved into a puddle emo-shit-glue instead of rescuing me, I kick him to the curb.

The "I am your father" contrivance is such lazy writing.

Throne room scene with Scarlet being threatened with the amputation of a finger. And I'm quoting Pooh-Bah from The Mikado: "Chop it off! Chop it off!"

Kai cursed beneath his breath. "You know, I'm beginning to think I entered into this marriage thing a bit hastily."

Ya think? Holy monkey balls, you are stupid! QUICK! Somebody get Kai to the vet for neutering because no one who's this stupid should breed.