Ariel LaFollette

“Those small idiosyncrasies littering his body were signs of his life and character, a map of his soul that only those who truly knew him could read.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“Dear Iris, I have to say that an eyeball is the furthest image from my mind. Even the fierce flower that inspired your mother to name you wasn’t the first thing I thought of. Rather: iris: transitive verb: to make iridescent. Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be. —C.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“There were not enough pages in all the books Elm had read, in all the libraries he’d wandered, in all the notebooks he’d scrawled, that could measure—denote or describe—just how beautiful she was.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“And yet I press my fingers to the scars in my skin—soft, tender, warm as the blood beneath—and I hear, “There is a divine … There is someone who has kept you here, breathing, moving, living.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows