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1 " Love is a conquest! Love is war! "
― Marissa Meyer , Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
2 " She was so stupid. Such a stupid, stupid girl.For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all. "
3 " From this day forward, you will be my sun at dawn and my stars at night, and I vow to love and cherish you for all our days. "
4 " She knew it wasn't real. She knew the holograph wouldn't hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all. "
5 " Maybe the princess could save herself.""That sounds like a pretty good story too. "
6 " Come here, baby sister," she whispered, and despite the terror twisting inside Levana's stomach, her feet obeyed. "I want to show you something. "
7 " But no. She didn't want to be Channary. She didn't want her beauty, not if it came with her cruelty and selfishness as well. "
8 " The guilt and the horror and the memory of that awful smell might stay with her forever, but she was the queen. "
9 " Being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all. "
10 " You must think I'm an awful ruler. One of those spoiled, selfish queens who cares more for her own reputation than the welfare of her people. "
11 " She cried for the girl who had never belonged. A girl who tried so hard, harder than anyone else, and still never had anything to show for it. "
12 " Why is it always a prince?” asked Winter. “Why isn’t she ever saved by a top-secret spy? Or a soldier? Or a … a poor farm boy, even?”“I don’t know. That’s just how the story was written.” Evret brushed back a curl of Winter’s hair. “If you don’t like it, we’ll make up a different story tomorrow night. You can have whoever you want rescue the princess.”“Like a doctor?”“A doctor? Well—sure. Why not?”“Jacin said he wants to grow up to be a doctor.”“Ah. Well, that’s a very good job, one that saves more than just princesses.”“Maybe the princess can save herself.”“That sounds like a pretty good story too. "
13 " Levana's heart throbbed. "It's been almost ten years.""I know.""And now? Are you still waiting for it to be over?"His expression softened. The anger was gone, replaced with something infuriatingly kind, though his words were heartbreakingly cruel. "Are you still waiting for me to fall in love with you? "
14 " A good queen was a well-informed queen. "
15 " I know you must be hurting now, but don't give up hope on future happiness, and all the good things that are still to come for you. "
16 " Levana had not seen the bodies, but she had seen the bedrooms the next morning, and her first thought was that all that blood would make for a very pretty rouge on her lips. "
17 " Don’t worry about her. It was only her birthday, after all. This was only her party. "
18 " Love is a conquest. Love is a war.Here is what I think of love. "
19 " She was suddenly angry. Angry that this woman was so effortlessly pretty. Angry that tonight she would sleep beside her doting husband. That soon she would hold a wrinkled, wailing baby in her arms and that child would never question whether it was loved, or whether its parents loved each other.Nothing Levana wanted had ever come that easily. "
20 " Are you still waiting for me to fall in love with you? "
