The Crown’s Game
“Imagine, and it shall be. There are no limits.”
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“Imagine, and it shall be. There are no limits.”
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“In that moment of perfect balance, she understood. This peace? These worries silenced without effort? It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.”
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“Murderer, monster, madman… Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he’s also loved. By me and by my father. But, most of all, by Shazi. With her, he is as fiercely loved as he loves.”
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“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”
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“He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.”
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“Rather than a single tent with rings enclosed within, this circus contains clusters of tents like pyramids, some large and others quite small. They are set within circular paths, contained within a circular fence. Looping and continuous.”
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