Anneke

“He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

“There was something unfamiliar about him. Something ferocious about his eyes, some sort of bite in his faint smile. Something altogether hectic and unsettled. She stood on the ledge of his smile and looked over the edge.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“You don't love people," he said. "You love what they do to you.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

“He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It’s easy to think you’re succeeding when you’re failing spectacularly.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest