Maschenny

“That's what mortal means," I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. "We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.”
― 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

“If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I've loved him through worse. I've loved him hopelessly...
So what's a little less hope?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son