The Betrothed

The most valuable thing you can own is the assurance of your place in someone's heart.

In the end, we made enemies with our heads, but we unmade them with our hearts.

What is a friend but someone who thinks you’re capable of more than you do?

Love is the final course at a feast that I’m still waiting to be invited to.

I cannot offer you a palace or a title, but I can offer you a home where you will be treasured for exactly who you are. pg. 224

It's called a citrine. If you, Hollis Brite, were a star, you'd be the sun. If you were a bird, you'd be a canary. And if you were a stone, you'd be a citrine. pg. 223

I'd said he couldn't burn me. I still believed that. If I was going to go up in a flame, it would be my own doing.

His hands were rough, but those blue eyes were so gentle. pg. 143

Every time I learned something new about Silas, I found I admired him even more.

Buy you are my sun, Hollis

the end, we made enemies with our heads, but we unmade them with our hearts.

As the doors opened to the Great Room, I blushed as everyone’s focus turned to us. My heart fluttered mercilessly, and I wondered if they could see it. They were looking upon their queen.

A minute down the road, my flower crown flew off behind me and landed somewhere in the dark.

Over the next few weeks, I intend to make all of Coroa aware of just how much I adore you. That will mean many things. Some will beg for your favor; others will curse your name. But none of that matters, Hollis. I want you for my bride.

A lamb will only go where its shepherd take it.

And as we know, nothing is more honorable than to give your life to your family.

the event you have caught cold and were unable to venture out into nature today, I thought that nature ought to come to its queen.

And I have no doubt that you will make for a remarkable queen.

Jameson's lips lifted into a devilish smirk. "Don't worry, Hollis. You will know everything soon enough.

Hollis, even in the night, you are still my sun, bringing light to my world.

It seems silly to tell the sun good night, but I do it anyway. Good night, Lady Hollis. I’ll see you in the morning.

And I don’t want you to be. All I ask is for you to be everything you already are. That, my sweet Hollis, is what I love you for.

sensed that in this moment—shoes gone, hair a mess, soaking wet—he found me irresistible.

If, if, if. If was a question that gave no answers.

There was something about those blue eyes that made me think...I couldn't even say what they made me think.

The three of us were a study on how grief changed people

He held me close, looking deep into my eyes. I sensed that in this moment—shoes gone, hair a mess, soaking wet—he found me irresistible.

there is an education that can only be received through travel.

It’s not really showing up,” she said, looking at the headpiece. “I don’t know how your hair came out so blond, but it just ruins the look of jewels across your head.” “Nothing I can do to help it,” I replied. As if I didn’t know already. My hair was a shade or two lighter than that of most of the crowd, and more than one person had noted it across my lifetime. “I blame your father.” “I wouldn’t,” he snapped. I swallowed, seeing the tension of the moment was truly getting to them.