Delaney Zook

“But I do belong here," he said, wrapping his arms around her.

"Yes," Esha laughed and Kunal reveled in the fact that it was for him, that her laughs would be his gift for the rest of his life.”
― Swati Teerdhala, The Chariot at Dusk

“Habibi was for friends and love that was real enough.
Hayati was when love became an all-encompassing thing. Deeper and deeper, until one became the other’s life.
Roohi was when a soul twined with its match and loved with the force of a thousand suns. When it slipped beneath the heart and tangled in the very fibers of an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“My mother's abscence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Before that beautiful heart that harmed none and loved too much-stopped.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame