“By you, I am forever undone.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
― The Queen of Nothing
It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
― The Queen of Nothing
“I haul around and slap him. It’s a stinging blow, smearing the gold on his cheekbone and causing his skin to redden. We stare at each other for long moments, breathing hard. His eyes are bright with something entirely different from anger. I am in over my head. I am drowning.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued," Cardan says. "For once.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― The Queen of Nothing
― The Queen of Nothing
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