Ria

“Touch me and I swear to the gods, I’ll cut your fucking hands off and let the quadrant sort you out in the next round of challenges, Dain Aetos
- Violet”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I can handle pain.” I turn toward her. “I live in pain. I practically built a house there and set up a whole economy. I can take whatever they dish out.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“People are trying to kill you? - Jesinia

It’s Thursday. -Violet”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I sit on the Steps to Nowhere with my friends, and we laugh. It is spring and a breeze is ruffling our hair like loving fingers. We sit so close together that we constantly brush each other. We touch each other with the casualness that love allows. Noah and Alex thumb-wrestle. Angie pokes me and asks what I'm doing after school. Brooke reaches out to admire Sasha's new hair. We have sat like this for a hundred days and we think we will for another hundred and one.
That is friendship, and it is love, but I already know what they have not learned yet; how dangerous friendship is, how damaging love can be.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me