❝ i’ve made a mistake. it started with a prince, as most stories do. once i felt the thrum of his heart beneath my fingers, i couldn’t forget it. ❞
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❝ i’ve made a mistake. it started with a prince, as most stories do. once i felt the thrum of his heart beneath my fingers, i couldn’t forget it. ❞
“How strange that instead of taking his heart, I'm hoping he takes mine.”
books read in 2020 → to kill a kingdom by alexandra christo
“Look at you,” he whispers. “My monster, come to find me.”
everything i (re)read in 2020: to kill a kingdom by alexandra christo
“And the ocean, calling out to us both. A song of freedom and longing.”
Hearts are power, and if there’s one thing my kind craves more than the ocean, it’s power.
fairy tale meme ❧ [3/10 adaptations] to kill a kingdom, novel by alexandra christo
They celebrate love as though it's power, even though it has killed far more humans than I ever have.
@booksociety’s To Me She Is Royalty event: To Kill A Kingdom » Princess Lira
She ascends from the ocean in a way that is nothing short of celestial. The water follows her in a throne, elevating her to the height of my ship. Ocean-soaked hair runs down the length of her body, and she retains the otherworldly glow that always seems to illuminate her moony skin. Only now she is something more than just a siren, or a girl masquerading as a pirate. She is a goddess.
m for madrid, to kill a kingdom chosen by @maskedlady ❝ Madrid is very good at adapting and never satisfied playing the hand she's dealt. I'd like to say I taught her that, but there are so many things Madrid was forced to learn before she chose the Saad. When you're taken by a Kléftesis slave ship, you quickly learn that to survive, you can't bend to the world; you have to make it bend to you.❞