Alaine

“Go!" He shouted the word at her, leveling the arrow at her forehead even as tears poured down his cheeks. "I never want to see your face. I never want to hear your name. If there were a way to scour you from my life, I'd do it. But until I find the strength to put you in a goddamned grave, this is all I have. Now run!"

His fingers quivered on the bowstring. He would do it. And it would kill him.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“Home was a pair of mismatched eyes, an accented voice, and a heartbeat that followed the same cadence as mine. And I was so, so homesick.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Loved. Past tense. Because she’d never deserved his love, and now she’d lost it for good.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom