Cheyenne Mitchell

“That is how healing starts, bandaging those past wounds. When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on.”
― Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

“Hello again, my love. It has been an age.” We look at each other, our torsos bare save my bra and his tattoos, and the two of us laugh. In that moment, there’s no division between who I was as Roxilana and who I am as Selene; the past and the present are here, all at once. “It worked,” I say softly. My fingertips graze his face and the puckered skin where his scar is. “I never truly lost you.” He shakes his head. “No, my queen, this is just the beginning.”
― Laura Thalassa, Bespelled

“I'm so in love with that infuriating woman, and one day—one day—she will realize how much she loves me too.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Gods, I miss this place. I miss what I thought my life would be. Simple. Quiet. Noble. But I don’t miss the woman I was, the one who didn’t know her strength.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame