His hand closes around my throat. The movement is so rough and violent I’m almost relieved. Some part of me always hopes he’ll go through with it; that maybe this time he’ll actually let me die. But he never does. It never lasts. Torture is
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“He’d wanted me to believe in his ruthlessness.
Then I remembered his words from so long ago: Make me your villain.”
― Ruin and Rising
Then I remembered his words from so long ago: Make me your villain.”
― Ruin and Rising
“You'll still make a great king."
"Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.”
― Ruin and Rising
"Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.”
― Ruin and Rising
“Hud would love his child the way his mother had loved him: actively, every day, and without ambiguity.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“You never know," said Nikolai. "I've been busy. I might have some surprises in store for the Darkling yet."
"Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."
"Well, now you've ruined the surprise.”
― Ruin and Rising
"Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."
"Well, now you've ruined the surprise.”
― Ruin and Rising
“Maybe our parents' lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins. Or. Or maybe we are free the moment we are born. Maybe everything we've even done is by our own hands.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
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