Celeste

“If I’d been there, beyond the wards, I would have drained the very earth to its core to keep you safe.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“That all my life I’ve wanted something I’m not even capable of. That I won’t ever be more, because I couldn’t even be enough.”
― Jenni Howell, Boys with Sharp Teeth

“The brightest meadows grew from dead things.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“I was glad when he lost his hand. Exy is all he has and all he loves; I knew it would destroy him to lose it. A month in the nest without it, maybe two, and he would have no recourse but to kill himself. I was only alive because he made me promise to survive. If he died, who could hold me to that? I would have slashed the tires on his car before I let him escape us, and he knows it.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Golden Raven