“Whom have you fallen in love with?' I ask.
'Well, there was you,' the prince says. 'When we were children.'
'Me?' I ask incredulously.
'You didn't know?' He appears to be merry in the face of my astonishment. 'Oh yes. Though you were a year my senior, and it was hopeless, I absolutely mooned over you. When you were gone from Court, I refused any food but tea and toast for a month.'
I cannot help snorting at the sheer absurdity of his statement.
He puts a hand to my heart. 'Ah, and now you laugh. It is my curse to adore cruel women.”
―
Holly Black,
The Stolen Heir