Vanessa

“Well, not to you,” I scoff. “I’m not wasting any of my goodness on someone who clearly already has an abundance.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“Until I found you by Stephen Sanchez started playing at little more than a thought from me and I offered her my hand. One more song. The wedding dance we should have had. The beginning we’d been denied.”
― Caroline Peckham, Sorrow and Starlight

“I looked into her green eyes, trying to show her what she was to me, what she had been. My salvation. I would have died a thousand deaths to be gifted this moment in her arms, to look at this perfect creation and see so much love for me burning within her. She had tried to deny death itself for me. There was only her.”
― Caroline Peckham, Sorrow and Starlight

“If I were the god of the sun, I would have given her endless dawns and warm hearths. If I were the god of the sea, I would have given her cool rains on hot nights and currents that always brought her home. If I were the god of vitality, I would have given her sweet fruit and spring flowers. I would have given her anything, everything, because that was what she deserved—every single thing she had loved, fully and completely, about mortality. But I am not the god of any of those things. I have only one gift to lay at her feet. And so, I wait.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone