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“What are we then?” I ask defiantly, putting some distance between us which he crosses with one step anyway. He kisses my cheek. “Each other’s.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“Are you some kind of Diviner?”
“No.”
“A monster, then?”
He almost smiled. “Don’t say you’ve been speaking with my mother?”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“Fist me!” I push my knuckles against the xenonite. “It’s ‘fist-bump,’ but yeah.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“She shook her head, though her shoulders trembled and her nails dug into her palms. “You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and you have a responsability to a kingdom.”

“If you are just one girl, I am just one boy.”

Shahrzad closed her eyes, unable to hold the fierce light in his gaze.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn