Kayla Welch

“And he didn't like love, the way it had made him feel stupid and vulnerable. If he ever married, he'd choose someone incapable of swaying his heart. Someone he hated, even, so they could never manipulate him the way Lucy Grey had. Never make him feel jealous. Or weak.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“No one had ever looked at my rage and refused to shrink away from it. I was used to being seen as intimidating, threatening, unpleasant: an angry bitch. But it kept me safe, it kept people from getting too close. Except Zane. He’d never pulled away, no, he’d kept pushing even when I pushed back.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“Most enticing of all, however, was her bountiful figure. The sight of her was like gazing upon a decadent feast. If ice cream would actually make her hips wider, he thought she should be making a determined effort to consume as much as possible.”
― Aurora Ascher, My Demon Hunter

“She was no dragon, no fire-breathing monster. She was a phoenix, as graceful as the dawn, as soft as she was clever, as gentle as she was determined.”
― Harley Laroux, Soul of a Witch