Ashley Herndon

“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Just want you to know, Oraya,” he murmured, “that you were the best part of it. The best part of all of it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“You could throw my entire world into upheaval, and I would still love you. You could keep secrets, run a revolution, frustrate the shit out of me, probably ruin me, and I would still love you. I can’t make it stop. I don’t want to. You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame