Roxanne

“I want to eat your mouth,” he suddenly says. The feeling suddenly disappears. “What?” His ears twitch. “I’ve seen my brethren do it with their human mates.” “Eat their mouths?” The image isn’t a lovely one in my mind. His tongue slips out a little, just the tip of it, and I am immediately reminded of what we did—how he felt between my thighs. “They enjoy the human custom,” he says. I frown, trying to gather my thoughts. “Oh!” It dawns on me. “Kissing.” I look at him in silence, that strange feeling blooming inside me getting stronger. “You want to kiss me?”
― A.G. Wilde, Cataclysm

“Not all family is worth having,” I said quietly. “Your friends are what everyone should have, but not everyone gets.”
― Sarah L Rose, The Guardians of the Aspis

“And sometimes,” Titan added, stopping Rose before she entered the bathroom, “just knowing someone is there for you can make you that much stronger a fighter, whether you take the offered hand or not.”
― Aimee Robinson, Angel's Target

“By the Gods… This is it. I think I have found the center of the universe.”
― A.G. Wilde, Base Zero