“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times, if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
maxon calix
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Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn’t even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn’t think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to me.
“You are Eadlyn Schreave. You are the next person in line to run this country, and you will be the first girl to do it on your own. No one,” I said, “is as powerful as you.”
Dad was already in his office, brow furrowed as he took in the news. Other than my eyes, I didn’t look much like him. Or Mom, for that matter.
With my dark hair, oval- shaped face, and a hint of a tan that lingered year round, I looked more like my grandmother than anyone else. A painting of her on her coronation day hung in the fourth- floor hallway, and I used to study it when I was younger, trying to guess at how I would look as I grew. Her age in the portrait was near to mine now, and though we weren’t identical, I sometimes felt like her echo.
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↳ the selection“Your Majesty —
Tugging my ear. Whenever.”
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“She’s daddy’s little princess.”
Maxon holding Eadlyn, taken by America.
Kile Woodwork
“Your Highness,” he greeted.
“It’s ‘Royal Pain in the Ass’ to you, sir.”
“This time, I felt like I was on the other side of that, looking past duty and worry and rank, seeing the true heart of a person. And [Erik’s] heart was beautiful.”