Crown Me Dead Quotes

“Men can stare straight at a thing and still not see it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Where there is love, there will be grief.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Pain is a cartographer…it draws boundaries.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“If you wanted honeyed lies, then maybe you shouldn’t have scared off whoever was before me. From me, the best you’ll get is salted truths.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I have longed for a wife longer than I have had a name for longing.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“They do what men often do best: nothing.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“A maggot hits the back of my throat like a flick of rice.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“cowardice is a disease, and I wasn’t born with that affliction.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Hunger makes thieves of the gentle and beasts of the rest.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Belief is a lantern.” He leans close”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“A father. That’s an ache I recognize. That is a hole in the world that cannot be filled, no matter how much soil you shovel into it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“rice.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I hate that he knows where I hurt. Hate that he puts his finger in, swirls it around in my sorrow.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I want your smell on my skin for days. I want to feel every part of you tighten around me.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“And then I shall crown…you…dead.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Sit in darkness, never shift, and you rot from the inside out.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“It’s easy to judge when you’re not the one bearing the weight.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Who coached your bluntness?” “The lesson that rich and poor wind up in graves the same size.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“The king sounds about as pleasant and personable as a porcupine for wiping your ass after a stew of beans. And you want me to seduce him?”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Pain wrinkles his mouth. He hides the wince the way men hide all weaknesses: by being louder.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Two footmen argue in whispers about what they ought to do at the sight of their rotting king, if anything. They do what men often do best: nothing.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Hate is a clean line. Love is all spills.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“should hate him for the suffering he’s causing, but there’s something disarming about the way he says sorry—like a man unused to the word, yet meaning every letter.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I wasn’t planning on throwing myself onto the floor. I do that only for death and spilled soup.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I offered him everything—my body”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“What if the answers change nothing? But what if they change everything?”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“If the library held an answer to that”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“His words sit bare and vulnerable between us”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I step closer to the scribe’s worm-eaten lectern because cowardice is a disease”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“You could call the face beautiful if you were a poet. You could call it a skull if you were drunk and honest.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead