Sam

“They had never defined what their "thing" was, exactly. Tony did whatever he wanted, and Pepper did the same, and all the while an unspoken decision to wait for each other lingered between them. Star-crossed but terminally overbooked, the threat of monogamy but not the call to it. Not yet.”
― Madeleine Roux, What If... Loki Was Worthy?

“Where was I supposed to hold all this so-called love? [...] How was I to receive it when my hands were already occupied with carrying so much shame?”
― Madeleine Roux, What If... Loki Was Worthy?

“I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies”
― Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights