⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ 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

“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

“That is the tragedy of women, isn’t it? We deny ourselves beauty for the sake of misleading men.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“But I felt anything but powerful when I was forced to recognize that Raihn—the man who had lied to me, imprisoned me, overthrown my kingdom, and murdered my father—genuinely cared for me.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King