Iphigenia

“Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“Driving a stick is like sex,” he stated. “Every person you’re with is different. They’re like a code that needs to be broken.” He turned and ran his hands up both sides of the steering wheel, slow and smooth. “What parts like to be touched.” His sensual voice started stirring its way through my body. “Licked. Sucked. Bitten.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“The more you suffered, the more you survived. It shaped people in different ways, and what broke one person could empower another.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken