“I stared up at him, hands and arms trembling. “I don’t know what you want from me.” “Everything,” he bit out between clenched teeth. “I want everything.”
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Always,” he whispered in the breath we shared. “Your heart was always safe with me. It always will be. There is nothing I will protect more fiercely or with more devotion, Poppy. Trust in that—in what you feel from me.”
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Your heart, Poppy? It is a gift I do not deserve.” He placed his hands on his knees as he lifted his gaze to mine. “But it is one I will protect until my dying breath.”
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
― A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“And your scars? They are a testament to your fortitude. They are proof of what you survived. They are evidence of why you are here when so many twice your age wouldn’t be. They’re not ugly. Far from it. They’re beautiful, Poppy.”
― From Blood and Ash
― From Blood and Ash
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