Ria

“So many mistakes in the end. Never you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from you.’” He trailed his fingers down my arm in slow, torturous strokes. My head fell back on his shoulder, my eyes fluttering closed, as his lips continued to move against my neck. “‘Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“I loved it—really, truly loved it—when they underestimated me.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“A dead lover can never break your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night