Arithra

“Osric did not want Fairhrim to be beautiful. He was susceptible to beauty. He was an appreciator of beautiful things. He wanted to acquire them. He wanted them to be his. Now, as Fairhrim neared, he fought a momentary panic that his beauty-loving heart would want Fairhrim in any way, that her loveliness tonight would trigger some latent kleptomaniac urge.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“If she had a flaw, it was that she was the Best, and she knew she was the Best. Some called it arrogance. She called it competence untainted by performative humility.”
― Brigitte Knightley, The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy

“Her father sighed, rubbing at his beard. "The problem with compromise,' he said eventually, 'is that, often, everybody loses. You sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Wonderful. First you grind on him like a wanton, then you swoon all over him, now you're giving him a show. This is going marvelously. What's next, tripping and falling on his cock by accident?”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace