Twisted Games Quotes
"It's rare to find someone of your stature who does charity because she wants to, not because she's putting on a show for the cameras."
"Love. Passion. Choice. Things no amount of money could buy."
"I’m not moving. You’re the security expert. Figure it out."
"People are people, no matter their title, and some desires are universal. Unfortunately, the ability to fulfill them was not."
"I adore animals. I took after my mother in that regard. It was one of the few pieces of her I had left."
"I'm used to it. Unless I'm in the palace, there's always a chance what I do will end up in the papers."
"Some people are idiots, and some people are assholes."
"Watching the men I served with die right in front of me... It fucked me up."
"The guys in my unit were like brothers to me, the closest I ever had to a real family, and I wouldn’t give that up for the world."
"If there was one thing I’d learned over the past month, it was I needed to take advantage of the ups in our relationship when I could."
"Your job isn’t to run my life. Stop acting like an overprotective parent."
"There’s more to life than trying not to die."
"Life is a war zone, princess. The sooner you understand that, the safer you’ll be."
"I’d rather you hate me alive than love me dead."
"Every time I try to talk to you, we end up fighting and the conversation goes nowhere."
"Simple instructions can be the hardest to follow."
"Other than my Navy buddies, I couldn’t remember the last time anyone really cared about whether I lived or died. But Bridget did, for some unknown reason, and it wasn’t just because I was her bodyguard."
"I saw it in her eyes and heard it in the faint waver of her usually cool, crisp voice."
"And I’d be damned if the knowledge didn’t hit me harder than a bullet to the chest."
"Thankfully, he’d also been so high he kept rambling about how the kid’s father had done him wrong instead of shooting to kill."
"The way she was looking at me, like she was afraid I might disappear if she blinked? It made my heart ache like she’d ripped off a piece of it and kept it for herself."
"Thoughts about whether Bridget tasted as sweet as she looked and how much I wanted to strip away her cool demeanor until I reached the fire underneath."
"It was all we could be, but that hadn’t stopped crazy thoughts from infiltrating my mind during dinner."
"My number one priority as a bodyguard is to protect you, not play savior."
"Blonde hair, ocean eyes, and a glow that had nothing to do with her outer beauty and everything to do with her inner one."
"Trust me, not everything is black and white."
"If you say so. And to answer your question, no, I don’t. The day I do is the day I stop 'bodyguarding.'"
"I’m so sorry. Losing a parent is never easy."
"I was shit at comforting people. 'It’s over. Everyone’s fine except for the shithead with the gun.'"
"My problem is you're acting like a drunk, spoiled brat."
"You're a lot of things, princess. Stubborn, infuriating, a pain in my ass half the time. But I promise you, you're not a spare anything."
"You're Bridget von Ascheberg. You'll be ready."
"No one said or did anything? Teachers, neighbors?" I couldn't imagine abuse of that level going unnoticed.
"There were plenty of kids in bad home situations where I came from. Some of them had it a lot worse than me. One kid getting ‘disciplined’ wasn’t going to raise any eyebrows."
"I didn’t hate a lot of people, but I suddenly hated everyone who knew or suspected what he’d been going through and didn’t do a damn thing about it."
"Let me tell you a story," he said. "It’s about a beautiful young girl who grew up in a small, shitty town she’d always dreamed of escaping."
"It wasn’t the boy’s fault," I said. A tear slid down my cheek before I could stop it. "I hope he knows that."
"He knows," Rhys said. He rubbed my tear away with his thumb. "Don’t cry for him, princess. He’s all right."
"There’s no such thing as just a story. Every story is important. Including yours."
"You are the future queen. Don’t let them intimidate you."
"I’ll see you tomorrow for the ribbon-cutting," I told Mikaela, who’d accompanied me to my meeting with Elin earlier regarding image damage control.
"I’m sorry, dear, but it’s the truth," Edvard said gently. "I wish I could shield you from the harsh truths of life the way I used to, but you’re going to be queen one day, and the time for sugarcoating is over."
"Trust me, princess. If I had a choice, I would’ve been back far sooner than that."
"You’re different now that you’re crown princess, dear cousin."
"I didn’t want to be one of those shallow people who only cared about looks, but it would be easier not to focus on his looks if he gave me something else to work with."
"I wished my friends were here. I’d video chatted with Ava, Jules, and Stella earlier that day, and I missed them so much it hurt."
"I need a break. Just a small one. Just so I could breathe."
"It was a gorgeous creation, as were my strappy silver heels and the diamond necklace resting against my collarbone, but all I wanted was to change into my pajamas and crawl into bed."
"If I started thinking about how the entire nation was watching me and how one of the men in the ballroom was likely my future husband—I would spiral."
"I wished I was that girl again. Not yet crown princess, soaking up the sun in a remote town where no one could find me."
"I have no intention of abdicating, stepping aside, or handing my responsibilities to anyone else."
"Everyone knew the true purpose of the ball, but no one was stupid or untactful enough to voice it out aloud…except for Erhall."
"You don’t need a crown to be queen, princess."
"Maybe it was the way she’d looked at me, like she thought I was everything too when I was nothing."
"Ours was a story destined for a tragic ending, but when you were already on a train headed off the cliff, all you could do was hold on tight and make every second count."
"I was a rule follower by nature. It was how I’d survived most of my life. But for Bridget, I would break every rule in the book."
"I wasn’t a sweet, lovey type of guy in any area of my life, but perhaps I’d been too rough with her."
"The throne suits you. Now, how can I serve you, Your Highness?"
"If only she could see herself the way I saw her. Beautiful, smart, strong. Perfect in every way that mattered."
"Trust me, princess. I would rather end my own life than ask you to do anything that might hurt you."
"We saw each other every day, but I knew what she meant. I missed the moments that belonged only to us."
"Being crown princess came with more rules and a smaller cage, but it also came with more purpose, and that was the one thing that’d always been missing in my life."
"No apologies needed. You did nothing wrong except fall in love."
"Love or country. An impossible choice when the future of a nation rests on your shoulders."
"I want you to know something, princess. There’s not much in the world I want to claim as mine. But you... You belong to me."
"I have to marry or at least get engaged before my coronation."
"We have nine months. We will figure. It. Out."
"Royal marriage isn’t about knowing someone. It’s about suitability."
"The best rulers are those who can wield both the carrot and the stick in equal measure."
"First of all, Ava and I will be friends forever."
"You might also want to look up the definition of ‘surprise.’"
"I’m not a blackmailer. But I needed leverage, fast."
"Don’t take this the wrong way, but you are a complete dick."
"One of the nicer things people have said about me."
"I’m as much yours as you are mine, princess."
"If we do it, we do it together. You and me against the world."
"I’m not dictating the law. I’m telling you to repeal one."
"We might need the information to push Erhall, but I want to try something before we resort to doing the same with Parliament."
"I wouldn’t have anyone else by my side, Mr. Larsen."
"We need to work off all the tension and anxiety from the past month."
"You can't sit by a queen's side if you don't know which fork to use."
"No harm, no foul? Elin, you went behind my back, created a scandal, and dragged Mikaela into it!"
"I knew you were trouble the moment I saw you."
"I'd like to see you try to use an oyster fork to eat steak."
"I wouldn't have it any other way, Mr. Larsen."