Nikki

“If he was the sun, by the old gods, she was the moon. Powerful, dark, and overbearing at times. She never left him, nor he her, as if they danced around each other for eternity.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Dawn of the Cursed Queen

“Then she smiled and it was terrible. Madeline’s lips pulled up at the corners in a terrible parody of good humor, her mouth stretching painfully wide, her jaw dropped so far that it looked almost like a scream. Above that awful grin, her eyes were as flat and dead as stones. I do not delude myself that I have seen every way the human mind can fail, though I have seen a hundred ways that soldiers and civilians can break in war. But I had never seen a smile like that.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead

“A thousand plus worlds he has seen, yet when he dreams, he dreams of you.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Throne of Broken Gods

“I only knelt for a while in the place where the woods had once been, but were no longer, until I understood what every person understands eventually: that I had left home and could never return to it, and that there would never be a time when I did not miss it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting