Aimee Renee’s Reviews > A Knight for a Queen > Status Update

"I vowed that the next time I returned to these halls, either
the marriage alliance would be obsolete or soldiers would be
carrying me in a coffin."

"He hung his head for a moment, but when he looked up—instead of the hurt or anger I expected—the smug bastard was grinning. 'You think I’m handsome?'”

LOL! It's hard not to like Christopher at least a little.

"Two weeks to end a war or else my life as I know it is over."

"My plan—three years’ worth of work and training and
combat—crumbled in my fingers like old bones, leaving only
the dust of my dreams behind."

Poor Elliot!

"'I won. I was the armored victor of the peasant’s forbidden Woodland Games. . .'
He laughed."
"In a split second, I closed the gap between us, pulled his hunting knife from his belt, did three quarters of a turn, and positioned the blade against the small of his back."
“'Whoa, whoa, whoa,” he choked, “I believe you, I believe
you.'”

Haha! Get him, Chara!

“'I know that you lost. I know because I was there. I was the one who fought you, and. . . I won. I was the armored victor of the peasant’s forbidden Woodland Games. . .'
He laughed."

Typical >.>

“'You’re not a knight, you’re a princess! And someday you will be a queen!' I stuck my chin out, 'Why can’t I be both?' 'Because who wants a knight for a queen?'”

I love finding the title in the book ^_^

"'Whoever he was,' I muttered, Millie’s broken face still intertwined with my memory of the armored stranger’s sword, this mysterious newcomer will not catch me off guard again.'”

Oh, the irony!

“I’d rather you send me to the battlefront than force me to
marry anyone, let alone some dodgy prince whose country finds
it acceptable to invade their peaceful neighbors just to increase
their own borders.
With that, the Grand Duke was rendered momentarily
speechless while my mother sat silent, a proud smile toying on
her delicate lips."

I just love a strong, sassy female lead ^_^ Get him, Chara!