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509 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 16, 2021
"A rose is a rose, even by another name. But we choose whether we will offer beauty to the world, or if we will use our thorns to sting."
"She was not fighting for love. She was protecting her own, everyone else's be damned."
"And maybe he was a coward. He was a coward who wouldn't stop loving a wicked thing."
"Only he knew if he screamed I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I still love you so much that I hate you for it."
"And if you are gunned down because you want to fight a war that doesn't belong to you, I will never forgive this city. I will tear it down to pieces, and you will be to blame!
"Keep fighting for love. It is worth it."
"And yet wasn't that the root of all hatred? Wasn't that what made it so vicious? There was never a reason. Never a good one. Never a fair one."
"Keep fighting for love. Juliette had wanted to be selfish, had wanted to run. But this was their love—violent and bloody. This city was their love. They couldn't deny their upbringings as the heirs of Shanghai, as two pieces of a throne. What was left of their love if they rejected that? How could they live with themselves, look at each other, knowing they had been presented a choice and gone against who they were at the core."
"In this life they had been born enemies. In this life they had blood for miles between them, wide enough to run a river, deep enough to forge a valley. In the next, maybe there would be peace."
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“In this life and the next, for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.”
Who cared about values when the history books were being written? What did it matter if the history books rewrote everything in the end?
“A rose is a rose, even by another name,” he whispered. “But we choose whether we will offer beauty to the world, or if we will use our thorns to sting.”
// buddy read with rain and lauren !!
Thank you to Simon Teen for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion in any way.
All quotes are from an advance copy and may differ in final publication.