Status Updates From Crown Me Yours (Heartstring...

I wish the writing was more clever.
A commoner becoming queen and NO ONE IS PLOTTING FOR THE THRONE???
The world in this story is incredibly small. If this was a play, it could have two sets.

"You've got it backward, big sister. Grief is just love hiding in a mourning dress, piling up inside you because the person you want to give it to isn't there to take it."

"I used to fear this. An unending succession of losses. An infinite lineage of goodbyes. Every hello carries its goodbye folded inside it, like a letter you know you'll have to open someday. But hello comes first. An endless succession of life, of love. Of now."