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Queen of Rot and Pain (The Pale Court, #2) Queen of Rot and Pain by Liv Zander
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“Enosh was so easy to hate, but in moments like this, he was even easier to love.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“We are all monsters in someone’s story, little one,”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Such a terrible emotion, love; perhaps the only emotion capable of soothing a heart one moment, only the rip it in half the next.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Because worse than a god in love… … was a goddess out for revenge.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Just how much did my dead wife want that kiss, hmm?” Staring down at me, he thumbed my bottom lip. “A pity... I have no appetite for your lies.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Little one, I will set the world ablaze and stand smiling at the center of its flames.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“I came into existence knowing my duty, my powers, and how to wield them. I know the world, its people, and all the languages they speak. Yet I do not know how to apologize in a single one.” A deep exhale. “However, I shall try.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“I shall watch the little god or goddess while you two… kill priests or… otherwise enjoy yourselves in town every now and then,” he mused. “Uncle Yarin. I quite like the sound of that.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“You once asked me how far I would go to see you returned.” The lap of his tongue at the nape of my neck sent an unexpected quiver into my thighs. “Little one, I will set the world ablaze and stand smiling at the center of its flames.” His other finger drew lazy circles around the side of my neck, numbing my mind with its warm caress. “I will kill, burn, and cut everyone who dared to bring heartache to my wife. I will do all this and worse to avenge what mortals did to you and me. And I will not stop”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“unexpected quiver into my thighs. “Little one, I will set the world ablaze and stand smiling at the center of its flames.” His other finger drew lazy circles around the side of my neck, numbing my mind with its warm caress. “I will kill, burn, and cut everyone who dared to bring heartache to my wife. I will do all this and worse to avenge what mortals did to you and me. And I will not stop”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Most recently, I prepared a grave for her, lowered her into it, and had corpse children fill it with dirt.” “Brother, when you try for the affections of a woman, you give her flowers,” he turned away on a scoff and slumped back on the daybed, letting another appear across from it, “not bury her beneath them.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“I am the Queen of Rot and Pain, beautiful and kind, terrible and cruel,”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Her breath for mine.” Leaning over”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“The ground shall tremble beneath my army of corpses”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Each beat of your heart is nothing but me thinking of you. Never again shall you go without it.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Eilam gifts you the breath of life”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“The scent of ash might be burnt into my skin”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“My love for you might yet make me a monster.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“We are all monsters in someone’s story, little one,” he said, then finally gave his nod of approval, “except in our own.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Suffering the pain of flesh is my duty; protecting you from it is my vow.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Allow me to love you like only a god can.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Enosh smelled like a thousand sins and salvations, like my lover and my husband.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Guilt and sorrow, hope and sin. The madness of their whispers lies within.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“I would rather have you hate me for eternity than not have you at all.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“Nothing about you is easy, Ada, but you are worth all of my troubles ten times over,”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“He was a boy. Innocent. Barely old enough to grow a damn beard, let alone lift a sword. Devil be damned, he’d probably spent all week watering the horses, filling cups of ale, and pouring the commander’s pisspots into the latrines. “P-please, Your Highness,” the boy stammered, letting my gloved fingers curl into the mink of my dress no matter how I didn’t want them to. “I… I have a younger sister at home who… She’s carrying my babe.” Well… maybe not innocent.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain
“I… I have a younger sister at home who… She’s carrying my babe.” Well… maybe not innocent.”
Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain