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

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

“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

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
― James V. Hart, Bram Stoker's Dracula