Rai (is hard to please)’s Reviews > Twin Crowns > Status Update

“Willem Rathborne had controlled every single element of her life since the moment she’d been born. She had so few people truly on her side and had never even known it. She’d been such a fool.”

fuck narcissists :)

“It was nothing serious, after all—just a stolen evening in the library and the whisper of something that might have been in another life. Let him keep his feelings. She didn’t want them.”

~angsty~

“I’m not kissing you in front of your wolf. I’m afraid that’s where I draw the line.”
“So, there is a line.”
“I’m as surprised as you are.”

3/3 banter. Things are looking up.

“It was preposterous for her sister to think she would still be Queen. That she was even fit for it in the first place.”

Why can’t y’all rule together, again?
Also, bite me.

(…) “if Rose knew about anything, it was diplomacy.”

… if u say so

“Today is merely a reprieve, Shen.”
He laughed softly, and she felt the rumble of it in her bones. “I thought you said yesterday was a reprieve.”
“And so it was. Forever starts again tomorrow.”
“Until tomorrow, then,” said Shen, taking a long swig. “And all the days after that.”

“Rose knew that there was just as much strength in mercy.”

Do you, now? And when did u adopt that philosophy?

“We were driven out of our own country, forced to live in the frigid corners of Eana, with nothing but the memory of what we once were to keep us warm. To keep us fighting.”

*cough* pilgrims *cough*

“No. . . .” Rose chose her words carefully. “But I think that kind of punishment could be considered monstrous”

Where was this energy when the Kingsbreath was hanging speculated witches from the vault?

“The best way to kill a memory is to stop speaking it aloud.”