Liz

“There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You eat like a caveman."
"No, I don't," he says angrily. And then, a moment later: "Do I?"

Warner to Kenji”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“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

“They'll tell stories about us, he had said.
There once was a boy with a future.
Until all he had left was his past.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame