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“I’m your goalie,” he says. “I’ll block all your shots tonight.”
― Stephanie Archer, Behind the Net

“I’m going to fucking destroy your body tonight and hopefully some of those insecurities that don’t make any goddamn sense right along with it.”
― Liz Tomforde, Mile High

“And when the days passed, and my exhaustion and my enthusiasm led me to loosen my typically-closely-held control over my socially unacceptable attitudes, my raw enthusiasm leaking through as I talked excitedly to Vale about some theory or another, I turned to see him staring at me, brows drawn. His expression made me freeze, my face flushing—because I’d let down a wall I shouldn’t have and wasn’t sure what I might have revealed beyond it. “I—” I started. But he just said, calmly, “You are a very beautiful woman.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Because if I let you go, you become my enemy in earnest. And I can’t kill you, princess. I’ve tried. I can’t.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King