Jess ✨

“I would beg,” he murmured. “For you, I would. You have fucking destroyed me, Oraya. Do you know that?”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“How many loves do you get in a lifetime? That’s a question I’ve wondered before … If you ask The Sun, I’ve had far too many, and in some ways that’s true, I have. But actually, I’ve only had two great ones.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“In another life I reckon I could have loved you,” I tell her. She gives me a little smile back. “In another life I would have let you—”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Marianne Cronin, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot