⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ Hailey ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆

“Maybe the king always knew that his greatest love would be his ruination. Maybe he knew it the moment he met her. He’d know it the second time he died, too.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I liked anger. It was tangible, and strong, and it made me feel powerful.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Strange, that girls are so often told that the loss of their virginity marks a threshold between girlhood and womanhood, as if it fundamentally alters them in some way. It was not the sex that changed the girl forever. Not the blood that spilled between her thighs that shaped her. The blood that spilled over that marble floor, though… Those are the stains on one’s innocence that never fade.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night