Scar

“Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“White and black. Light and dark. And me, in the middle of it all. Gray.”
― Ami Polonsky, Gracefully Grayson

“I took a breath. “Your highness—”
“Nikolai,” he corrected. “But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything