Mariana (Azula)

“Shit,” he swore, ripping his mouth from mine once we were both panting, and resting his forehead against mine.
“Not what you expected?” …
“Just the opposite.” He pressed a kiss to my jaw, then my throat, before returning to my lips. “Everything I expected and so much more. I fucking knew it would be like this with you.”
“Chemistry,” I muttered, but that wasn’t the word ticking the edges of my mind. Fate. There was no other way to explain this, to explain us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“There hasn’t been a day I haven’t thought of you, missed you, wanted you, loved you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“He wasn’t mine. I wasn’t his. That was the agreement we’d made.
And yet he was always mine.
I was always his.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“Because nothing worth having is easy.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event