Aimé

“This is my room,” he points out, affronted. “And that’s my wife.”

“So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”

“Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”

“I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“-Ya no te amo -susurró ella. -No te amo en absoluto.
A él se le puso un nudo en la garganta.
-No importa, cariño. Yo tengo amor suficiente por los dos.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

“-Ambos seremos tontos -dije-, y viciosos y crueles. [...] Pero vamos a fingir que sabemos amar -le sonreí-, y algún día aprenderemos.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty