Holly

“See? Not completely insufferable,” he murmurs. “No. I guess not.” “I was speaking to myself.”
― K.A. Tucker, A Fate of Wrath & Flame

“Oh, look, it is possible for my heart to beat faster.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“The stew had been as vile as the potato, but neither compared to the following courses of perfectly good eels ruined as they curled in a gelatinous mold studded green with herbs, guinea fowl roasted and seasoned with some concoction that convinced him the royal cook wasn’t a cook but a necromancer who ground the bones of the dead and mixed them with the pepper. The cheese plate almost did him in, and he had to ask Ildiko twice if the ones speckled a greenish-blue weren’t actually bits and pieces of fermented corpse. Her explanation of how the cheese was made had him wishing they’d served fermented corpse instead.”
― Grace Draven, Radiance

“Harry’s legs were heavy with blood as his head grew light.”
― Daria Vernon, The Rogue's Last Letter