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41 " I know.” She, too, was bound by a sacred oath. "
― Katharine McGee , American Royals (American Royals, #1)
42 " It struck Beatrice that none of them were the masters of their own fates. "
43 " I’m scared.” Connor whispered it so softly that she thought she’d misheard. "
44 " She focused on the feel of his mouth, the roughness of his cheek against hers, committing every last detail to memory– so that someday, when she was trapped in a political marriage, she could look back on this moment, and remember what it felt like to be truly loved. "
45 " How long?” she asked. “Hopefully a year,” her father said softly. “More likely, months. "
46 " I wish I had someone I could turn to for guidance. But all I can do is pray. "
47 " I’m a commoner. "
48 " Only you would daydream about a library meet-cute. "
49 " Despite how progressive America claimed to be, there was still a sexist double standard quietly underpinning everything. "
50 " The variable here was that Jeff was a boy and Sam was a girl, and even when they did the exact same thing, people reacted to them differently. If the paparazzi caught Jeff on an expensive shopping spree, he was splurging for a special occasion, while Samantha was spoiled. If pictures surfaced of Jeff visibly drunk and stumbling out of a bar, he was blowing off some much-needed steam. Samantha was a wild party girl. If Jeff talked back to the paparazzi, he was simply being firm, protecting his privacy. Samantha was a ruthless bitch. "
51 " She felt that way now, at the Queen’s Ball. Like she wasn’t inhabiting her own life but had turned into an actress, reciting a script that someone else had written. "
52 " Her ears felt pinched. She reached up, realizing that she'd accidentally slept in the diomand earrings from the Crown Jewels Collection. Oops. She unscrewed them and tossed them onto her bedside table, then lunged for her phone, suddenly desperate to know whether Teddy had texted. "
53 " Maybe things would improve when Beatrice someday took the throne—when, after two hundred and fifty years, America would finally be ruled by a "
54 " woman. Or maybe it would have been better if America had never been a monarchy at all, and had some other form of government. "
55 " #TeamDaphne, "
56 " You’re going to be an amazing first queen. If this was a world where people could, I don’t know, vote for their monarch, I know that America would still pick you. I would pick you. "
57 " Elect the king or queen—what a funny concept. Everyone knew that elections only worked for judges and Congress. Making the executive branch pander "
58 " to the people, go out begging for votes—that could only end in disaster. That structure would attract the wrong sort of people: power-hungry people with twisted agendas. "
59 " Everything seemed to go luscious, and slow, and still. "
60 " It made Beatrice wish she could melt back down to little-girl size: back when everything was so simple, when a kiss and a Band-Aid could solve almost any problem. "