01UndatedIt was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
02UndatedBut mostly I just think I'am not the best person to demonstrate all the goodness humanity has to offer. I don't want you to be too disappointed when you realize that.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
03UndatedBesides, if you are who you claim to be, that makes you my true queen. Therefore, you have my loyalty.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
04UndatedYou're asking the cyborg fugitive and the wild animal to be the welcoming committee? That's adorable.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
05UndatedKai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
06UndatedIko held up a hand. "You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
07UndatedBut you are crazy.”“I know.” She lifted a small box from the basket. “Do you know how I know?”Scarlet didn't answer.“Because the palace walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it.” She shrugged, as if this were a perfectly normal thing to say. “No one believes me, but in some corridors, the blood has gotten so thick there's nowhere safe to step. When I have to pass through those places, I leave a trail of bloody footprints for the rest of the day, and then I worry that the queen's soldiers will follow the scent and eat me up while I'm sleeping. Some nights I don't sleep very well.” Her voice dropped to a haunted whisper, her eyes taking on a brittle luminescence. “But if the blood was real, the servants would clean it up. Don't you think?Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
08UndatedWhat did you bring me today? Delusional mutterings with a side of crazy?Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
09UndatedThey're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
10UndatedTapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, “Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
12UndatedYou think I’m perfect?”He didn’t look away. Didn’t look bashful or even nervous. Just stared at her, like she’d asked him if Luna orbited the Earth. Then he leaned over and brushed a kiss against her forehead.“Just sort of,” he said. “You know. On a good day.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
13UndatedEmperor, right." she retacked the curtain "That's weird to say, after eighteen years of listening to celebrity gossip feeds go on and on about 'Earth's favorite prince'". She claimed one of the lumpy sofa cushions, curling her legs beneath her. "I had a picture of him taped to my wall when I was fifteen. Grand-mere cut it off a cereal box."Wolf scowled."Of course, half the girls in the world probably have had that same picture from that same cereal box."Wolf scrunched his shoulders against his neck, and Scarlet grinned, teasing. "Oh, no. You're not going to have to fight him for pack dominance now are you? Come here."She beckoned him with a wave of her hand and he was at her side in half a second, the glower softening as he pulled her against his chest.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
14UndatedCinder flexed her tongue, testing it, and raised her voice."I am princess Selene."Levana leaned forward. "Your are an impostor!""And I am ready to claim what's mine. People of Artemisia, this is your chance. Renounce Levana as your queen and swear fealty to me, or I swear that when I wear that crown, very person in this room will be punished for their betrayal.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
15UndatedI'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
18UndatedI know that you are my guard, and you are my best friend. I know you would die for me. And I know that should that ever happen, I would die immediately after.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
19UndatedDo I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not your minds.""I've been waiting for you to admit you wanted my body.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
21UndatedThorne cleared his throat. "We need to get back to the house. We've already risked drawing enough attention, and she..." He looked at Winter. There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was. "...will definitely draw attention.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
22UndatedMy stepmother is not only powerful because the people fear her, she is powerful because she can make them love her when she needs them to. We think that if we choose to do only good, then we are only good. We can make people happy. We can offer tranquility or contentment or love, and that must be good. We do not see the falsehood becoming its own brand of cruelty.”The ship trembled and their speed increased. Luna blurred beneath them.“Once,” Winter continued, pushing the words out of her lungs. “Once I believed with all my heart that I was doing good. But I was wrong.Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
24UndatedEven if I believed I was doing good- for who I am to presume what is good for others?Marissa Meyer / quote ↗
