Athena

“Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“A king does not beg.” “He does for his queen.”
― Lindsay Straube, Kiss of the Basilisk

“And then one day, they stopped.
Long, long before I had stopped loving him.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“It grated on me. That no one would question him moving on. Him marrying and impregnating someone more than ten years his junior. Because that’s what divorced men in their forties did. His stock was still rising. His power still intact. Daniel had become more desirable, and I somehow less so. As if time were paced differently for each of us.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You