Zoha Qazi

“He looks up at me with his night - colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once.
"For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me."
I make a face at him.
"And what made you decide it wasn’t?"
He grins up at me.
"They missed.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I feel a guard's hand close on my arm. Then Cardan's voice comes.
"Do not touch her."
A terrible silence follows. I wait for him to pronounce judgement on me. Whatever he commands will be done. His power is absolute. I don't even have the strength to fight back.
"Whatever can you mean?" Randalin says. "She's-"

"She is my wife,"

Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd.
"The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“She's bewildering as much as she is beguiling. That pretty mouth of hers says one thing, but those ocean eyes say another. She pulls a knife from my back only to say she'll bury another one there. She's confusing, captivating, and we're completely wrong for each other in all the right ways. She's a flame, and I'm going to get burned. An ocean and I'm going to drown.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“This is my room," he points out, affronted. "And that’s my wife."
"So you keep telling everyone," the Bomb says.
"But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that."
"Oh, I don’t know," I say. "Maybe he’d like to hear me scream."
"I would," Cardan says, standing. "And perhaps one day I will.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing