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“Excuse me?”
The librarian looked up again.
“I need help now. I need to print this article and . . . do you have any books about dukes?”
The librarian’s eyes went wide and she rubbed her hands together with glee. “We have a fantastic romance section,” she said. “Do you need recommendations? How do you like your dukes? Grumpy? Tortured? Alpha, beta, or alpha in the streets, beta in the sheets?”
“Actually, I meant nonfiction,” Portia said glumly.
The librarian sighed. “Aye. Just a warning, love—the non-fic dukes are not nearly as fun.”
― Alyssa Cole, A Duke by Default

“Burning eyes regarded him. OUR DEAL.
"Doesn't extend as far as you've been reaching."
A TREE ONLY KNOWS TO GROW.
Ryurikov's lips vibrated with a puff. "You're being very evasive—"
A furry and heavily toned leg curled around him, eased him forward, careful enough that should he put up any resistance, it would stop.
Ryurikov's heart did a thing, a thing he didn't like. It lurched and stuttered at the same time. His hands connected with Awimak's torso, fingers splayed against the muscular chest to catch himself. The scent of earth and stone greeted him, drifting into his very soul with a deep, nervous inhale.”
― Penny Moss, Coil of Boughs

“Finlay snorted. "Fuck, if you keep on being so precious I'm really going to fall for you."
Folke froze in the midst of moving away to shrug off his chore coat. Both his lovers had grown silent and the air taut with uncertainty. Maybe even regret.
He wanted to ask, did you mean to say that?
More urgently, do you mean it?
Blurted, "Then my plan is falling into place.”
― Penny Moss, Rainsquall

“YOUR INADEQUACIES ANGER YOU.
Ryurikov glared up in affront. He opened his mouth to retort, but a sturdy finger pressed against his lips. The very gall of Awimak shushing him—
THERE IS NO SHAME IN HAVING LIMITATIONS, RYURIKOV. ONLY IN ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR LIMITATIONS CAN YOU GROW.
"I'm not a fucking tree."
TREES, HUMANS. THERE IS LITTLE DIFFERENCE. YOU COME FROM THE EARTH, YOU BLEED. YOU DO WHAT YOUR NATURE TELLS YOU TO. Awimak cupped Ryurikov's face and gently stroked his cheek with a thumb. A REFUSAL TO GROW IS ALL THAT WARRANTS SHAME.”
― Penny Moss, Coil of Boughs

“An odd noise left Oliver. Tau didn't have the faintest idea what he meant, but it amused him all the same. The scant yet sometimes mighty human watched him with those eyes. Like moss turned vibrant with dwimmer in an otherwise impenetrable darkness. Oliver's hair, an undulation of gold. That skin, alabaster tinged pink. And his mouth.
Soft.
Tau knew it was because, in a moment of daring, he had touched those lips. What if he were to touch them again, right now? What if he were to touch other parts? Just being here, sitting so close, thrilled him in ways he had no hope of explaining. All Tau knew was that he wanted to touch.
Touch.”
― Penny Moss, Miners of the Mystics

“I’ve had a wonderful time, he wanted to say. Hoping Darach would catch the hint, that he wanted to continue, but elsewhere. Preferably in the privacy of their home.
“This wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be,” Folke blurted instead.
Thank goodness his lover had a sense of humour, expelling it against his mouth in short bursts.”
― Penny Moss, Rainsquall

“Better not close them,” he said in a murmur so low, Folke wouldn’t have heard him if he weren’t right by his ear. “I want to look into those baby blues when I fuck you.”
― Penny Moss, Rainsquall

“The apartment could have been a weapon. It could have been a teacher. It could have been an executioner. Instead, it was just walls.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Locked Apartment

“Be wary when everyone agrees too easily.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Everyone Is Lying

“The lie is law now. Which means the truth must become rumor.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Scribe of Ashes

“Useful things became invisible.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Black Banner of Acre

“You are a fire watcher. You keep eyes where others cannot.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Fire Watcher: A World War II Historical Fiction Novel

“Do not mistake silence for peace. Do not mistake obedience for loyalty.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Ink and Steel

“The truth is not always the same as belief.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Fear is loud. Greed is quiet. Justice must be deliberate.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Witch Ledger

“Power resists morality. It responds to exposure.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Threads of Smoke

“A man who knew wind could bargain for breath.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Saltwater Chains

“Empires, he thought suddenly, must break like rivers. Not all at once. First, a sound beneath the surface. Then a fracture. Then the flood.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Violin of Snow

“Empires are built on swords, but they survive on words.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Lotus Veil

“In a world ruled by fear, a single act of kindness became an act of rebellion.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Last Ticket Out

“The laws of physics can be broken only by desperation.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Last Signal

“Freedom without truth is only a more beautiful cage.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, THE CITY OF SLEEPING MINDS: ACT I: THE CITY THAT SLEEPS

“This world wasn’t perfect. It just hid its imperfections better.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, THE CITY OF SLEEPING MINDS: ACT III: THE INTELLIGENCE THAT DREAMS

“Humanity doesn’t survive by being perfect. It survives by choosing.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, THE CITY OF SLEEPING MINDS: ACT III: THE INTELLIGENCE THAT DREAMS

“Hope survives longest in those who still dare to ask why.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Children of Mars

“He grins, then drawls, “With all these observations of yours, are you sure you’re not just obsessed with me?”
― Kaitlyn Allred, The Shadows of Swords

“Hope is expensive when it costs pieces of your future.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Time Market

“Truth is like the tide—it can be delayed, but it cannot be stopped forever.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Earth After Tomorrow

“Some discoveries change the world. Others change the meaning of being human.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Perfect Human Project

“The universe does not forget—it simply remembers in ways we cannot understand.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Memory Planet