The Defiant Heir Quotes

“I traded freedom for power, and I could use that power to keep the people I cared about safe. To wish for both freedom and power would be selfish; there was a reason everything came with a cost.”
― Melissa Caruso, The Defiant Heir

“If no one listened to you, no one remembered when you were wrong. The more power you had, the more terrible the consequences of your mistakes.”
― Melissa Caruso, The Defiant Heir

“If a thing has rules, and players, and is entertaining, that makes it a game. But I might take exception at your use of the word only. Games are often deadly serious.”
― Melissa Caruso, The Defiant Heir

“Then I spied something less welcome: a crowd of hopeful fortune hunters preparing to converge on me, lured by the gleam of unwed Cornaro gold.”
― Melissa Caruso, The Defiant Heir