She wasn’t even certain she was Tress anymore, or if she’d become someone else. You could say, in other words, that her state at the moment was distress.
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“In fact, once I have retaken my throne, you will not have to do anything if you do not wish it. If you desire to sit in some corner of the castle hunched over your books and notepaper, bestirring yourself only to demand a tour of some brownie market or bogle den, then it will be done."
I let out a trembling breath. "And what sort of queen would that make me?"
He looked perfectly earnest as he leaned in to kiss my cheek. "Mine.”
― Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
I let out a trembling breath. "And what sort of queen would that make me?"
He looked perfectly earnest as he leaned in to kiss my cheek. "Mine.”
― Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

“Because society lied to us. As women, we were told we could have it all, do all the things well every day. But you know what? That’s a crock of shit. ”
― Mother Faker
― Mother Faker

“Stories are the architecture of Faerie, more powerful than magic, more powerful than kings.”
― Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
― Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

“Beckett Langfield likes three things: his steaks rare, his women bare, and the billions he’s got in the bank earning interest.”
― Mother Faker
― Mother Faker

“I consider him for a second longer. Nah, he’s a Langfield. Of course she’s interested. We’re magnificent.”
― Mother Faker
― Mother Faker
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