Krista

“She might have known he’d be trouble. The interesting men always were. Indeed, that was precisely what made them so interesting.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin

“Strong, intelligent women had always been his weakness. He blamed it on the example set by Miles’s mother, Rose. She’d been something of a bluestocking, too, with her forward-thinking ways, and her determination to better herself and her son despite all the odds against her. The granite wall of Gabriel’s already weakened defenses began to crumble.”
― Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin

“Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“Eli shook his head. "When we first met, I thought you two were respectable."

"Really?" Sam sounded excited.

Ulysses didn't look over at them, even though he must have been working by feel in the dim light. "I knew taking this job was a mistake," he grumbled. "People hear you're a professor, that's the first thing they assume.”
― E.H. Lupton, Lazarus, Home from the War