Anna ✨

“There are rare people who will fuel the fire inside of you, who will awaken a dormant passion, who will push you and better you. She alone is my rarity.”
― Krista Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

“I need you," he said roughly. "Don't run away from me."
"How can you expect me not to run from you," said Alizeh, still trying to shake off her apprehension, "when you threatened just hours ago to have my eyes sewn shut?"
He looked sharply away from her then, a muscle jumping in his jaw. "I shouldn't have said that."
"And then you threw me off a cliff," she said, her voice a bit breathless even to her own ears.
"You wouldn't stop threatening to kill me," he said angrily, turning back to face her. "I was merely trying to change the subject.”
― Tahereh Mafi, These Infinite Threads