Crown Me Dead Quotes

“They do what men often do best: nothing.”
― 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

“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

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

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

“rice.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“We wrap the dead with our hands steady and our mouths shut, because the living moan and scream enough for everyone.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Do not be brave.” “I don’t know how.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Yesterday, you curled into me like you belonged there. Now, you’re acting as if I’m your enemy all over again.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“My pulse flutters against his touch, shy and sharp. He’s so close. So warm, making me want to press my face deeper into his touch.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I tell myself I don’t lean into the cradle of his palm as my gaze finds his. God forbid I notice the clean heat of him, the faint scent of carnations, the way my stupid pulse steps too obediently into his touch.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Oh, so deceit, treason, and marching me to a blade sit fine on your conscience, but the king’s throat is sacred? Convenient.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“He drags his hand up, slow and sure, as if he’s taking his time to teach my body where to respond.”
― 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

“His cock stands out from his body in a thick, angry curve, obscenely hard, jerking upward with a heartbeat of its own.”
― 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

“Did my brother manage to make you feel like this? Did his hands make you grind your body for more? Did his fingers make you burn like this?”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“It’s one thing to offer a mouth to keep a monster distracted, but it’s another entirely to let him inside me like this.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I could solve that.” The words purr, low and dangerous. “Once I’ve killed my brother and crowned myself king, I’ll take pity on his widow.” He leans in, close enough that the warmth of his mouth brushes mine without touching. “I will wed you myself.” A beat. “Fuck you.” Another beat. “And then I shall crown…you…dead.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Vale’s goal isn’t fueled by an urge to help”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“Feed me before I do something reckless, like be agreeable.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

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

“You love to paint me as the villain, Elara,” he bites out, “but how precisely am I the monster when I’m the only one willing to claim what is mine and fix what he refuses to touch?”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“banding my ribs, the other clamping low on my waist, fingers digging into my hip with a force that has nothing to do with saving me and everything to do with keeping me.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

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

“Whenever was there a story told about someone who saved a realm, and it was easy?”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“If the library held an answer to that, don’t you think I would have found it by now?” “Men can stare straight at a thing and still not see it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

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

“I’ll hoard his laughter until death can’t find where it’s coming from.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“He drags his olive eyes over my curves like silk that wants to strangle.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead