Robin

“It doesn't help that the morning light does nothing to make him look less forbidding. I'm getting the feeling this man walks around with a little bit of midnight in his pocket.”
― Katee Robert, Neon Gods

“Knowing is hard,” he says, “but it’s a thing you can survive. The not knowing will kill you in the end. It’s the secrets that fester.”
― Ginny Myers Sain, Dark and Shallow Lies

“You let me eat up all papa’s anger so it wouldn’t poison you. you didn’t mind that he ruined me as long as you were unspoiled and safe. If you ever loved me, it was because I was a soft thing you threw down into the bottom of a pit to break your fall.”
― Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

“Have you ever made a flame dance upon a windowsill?” he asks softly. “Or called a lighting bug to your hand on a summer’s night? Have things ever happened because you wished they would, or those who would hurt you gone away suddenly and no one knows the reason?”

The crystalline gaze is steady. “No, sir, because those things bring death. And I do not mean to die.”
― C.S. Friedman, Feast of Souls