Marlee

“He gently traced the line of my jaw. “I won’t let anyone hurt you ever again. You have my word.” He thought he could protect me. He wanted to. He was touching me, and all I wanted was to let him. Let him protect me. Let him touch me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“For who are we all, if not the product of who we love, what we know, and every wonderful word that we have read?”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“I may not shine as brightly as my friend Happiness, but my flame is harder to extinguish.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Christmas Pig