Abbey

“I claim you, Aelin. To whatever end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Any human who takes a siren's heart will be immune to the power of their song. Only Elian didn't need to take my heart; I gave it to him.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“What defines a romance? All scholars seem to converge on a single point: it is a story that must have a happy ending. And why is that? I say, it is because a romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily. For the only true end is death - and in this way, is romance not a rebuke of mortality? When love is here, I am not. When love is not, I am gone. Perhaps a romance is a story with no end at all; where the end is but a wardrobe with a false back, leading to stranger and more merciful words.

From an epistemological theory of romance by Dr. Edmund Huber, collected in the Llyrian Journal of Literary Criticism, 199 AD”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning