Irene

“To anyone who grew thorns instead of flowers--You had your reasons.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“I’ve always resented people for trying to save me, but maybe this is how it works, maybe we save one another.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“You were curled in the corner of the bed, completely absorbed in that book, as if it didn’t matter that you lived this brutal existence and had only a tiny room to call your own. It didn’t matter that you had to work so hard for everything. When you were reading, you were somewhere else. You were someone else.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“What changed my mind,” he said, “is that I realized I couldn’t kill you. Not even to save the fucking world.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne