Cécilia

“Though if you mean to take me captive, you need
only ask. I would come willingly.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“Did you really feel it necessary to add that last part?”
“Which part?”
“And I will not care,” she said, echoing his emotionless tone. “Do you enjoy being needlessly petty?”
“Yes,” he said. “I do.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“I hate you,” he whispered. Alizeh blinked, her heart pounding too hard in her chest. “I know.” He leaned in then, his throat working, his gaze fixed entirely on her mouth. “I hate everything about you. Your eyes. Your lips. Your smile.” His words grazed her skin when he said, softly, “I find your presence insufferable.”
― Tahereh Mafi, These Infinite Threads

“You have consumed my thoughts since the moment I met you,” he said to her. “I feel now, in your presence, entirely strange. I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom