Melisa

“You will not die today, yshera,” Death replied, low and dangerous. “The world is not prepared for what I would do if this,” his thumb pressed against my pulse point, “were to stop.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“Yshera,” he said, and there was a rawness, an honesty, in his voice I hadn’t heard before. “Taking on your pain is nothing compared to the pain I feel when you experience it.”
― Jacqueline White, Souls in Ruin

“Did you hear what I said?"
"Oh, I did. I just ignored it.”
― Lexie Janson, Crown of Shadows

“What a sensation to know someone well enough to hear the cadence of their silence.”
― Piper C.J., The Deer and the Dragon