Liz Then

“I realized then that when a person talks about something they really love there’s a kind of thrill to it.”
― Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

“Are you some kind of Diviner?”
“No.”
“A monster, then?”
He almost smiled. “Don’t say you’ve been speaking with my mother?”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“Tell me your name," he whispered.

Slowly, very slowly, Alizeh touched her fingers to his waist, anchored herself to his body. She heard his soft intake of breath.

"Why?" she asked.

He hesitated, briefly, before he said, "I begin to fear you've done me irreparable damage. I should like to know who to blame.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“Say you came back for me," he whispered. There was a thread of desire in his voice that threatened the good sense in her head, her very composure. "Tell me you came to find me. That you changed your mind."

"How--how can you even say such things," she said, her hands beginning to tremble, "on an evening you are meant to choose another as your bride?"

"I choose you," he said simply. "I want you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom