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‘He gave me another one of his glass stares, the way he did whenever he thought I was being stupid. “I’m the only one who gets to take your life.”
It might have been the most romantic thing he’d ever said to me…’

‘“…turn me little again.” He wiped his eyes with a sleeve, and stared at the plate of mung bean cakes. “Little enough that all I wanted to reach for was the banquet table. When all I knew to desire was a sweet cake. And even if everyone punished me, or yelled at me, or hated me, at least back then I didn’t know why. If you can’t turn me into a fish, at least turn me little.”’ Terren;_;

‘It was the one opportunity I would ever have to kill my prince.’ 🤤

‘I would rather fail with honesty than succeed without honor. Better the whole world be ashamed of me than for me to be ashamed of myself.’

'...hot summer wind drying the ink, I felt in control. The words on the page were mine. Nobody could take them away. Even if they burned these papers, I could simply write more.'