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“But she stepped forward and placed a finger to his lips, and there it was before him. The greatest prayer to the gods he could muster with a heart so broken. Don’t let me outlive this woman. Don’t let me exist one moment without her.”

sobbing

“The gods drew you well,” she said.
He chuckled softly.
“Can I be reminded of how the gods drew you?” he said.”

and they say romance is dead!!!!!

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“Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?”

The princess pointed a hard finger to her own chest.

“Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I’d have lain down and died waiting.”


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“...Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he’d like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness. Finnikin had once said it was the only way to live. That he wanted to drown in hope rather than wallow in despair.”