Lauren

“I would’ve thought you wouldn’t mind being squashed up against a big, hulking man like Atlas. I could see you pulling the whole ‘Oh, no, there’s no room in here, and it’s so hot. I’ll have to take off my pants and sit in your lap.”
― Eden Finley, Rogue

“I have a boyfriend, and you don’t, so suck it, loser … Okay, I would never say that to someone, but I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the word. I need to practice in my head before I do something stupid in public like call him my friendboy or, worse, say something cringey like “I’ve taken a lover.”
― Eden Finley, Atlas

“It began with her thoughts on pregnancy, how the very same process in any other context would be the stuff of gothic novels: a woman of sound mind had to watch her belly swell to grotesque proportions, knowing that if all went well, it would merely end in pain. Meanwhile, everyone told the beleaguered woman to be overjoyed. There was a wrongness to this, and a passivity which confirmed for all the world to see that at their most uniquely female activity, women truly were just vessels, to be filled and stretched out by the needs of others.”
― Evie Dunmore, The Gentleman's Gambit

“You are one of the Thirteen,” she said to him. “From now until the Darkness cleaves us apart. You are mine, and I am yours. Let’s show them why.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire