“I want to see the expression your face makes when it’s happy. I don’t know why, but I do. I have seen you angry and hateful and disappointed and sad—so sad—Lazarus. I want to see what stokes the fire in that soul of yours and lights you up
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“I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“it was there I learned the true fears of men—anything more powerful than them.”
― Queen of Myth and Monsters
― Queen of Myth and Monsters
“I’m going to go back and stop your son from killing her.”
The queen’s face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she’d spent lying in a suspended state. “That is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.”
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. “There is nothing of equal value to me.”
― The Ballad of Never After
The queen’s face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she’d spent lying in a suspended state. “That is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.”
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. “There is nothing of equal value to me.”
― The Ballad of Never After
“Deny it,” he said. “If it will make you feel less of a traitor.”
― King of Battle and Blood
― King of Battle and Blood
“You dishonor her,” he said. Adrian offered a shrewd smile. “In what way? By fucking her against a wall? It feels like worship to me.”
― King of Battle and Blood
― King of Battle and Blood
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