Sinéad

“Oh, the ridiculous things one has to do when one is a pirate.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“make sure you feel safe enough to be real.”

“I do not want to be party to forcing you into yet another role you did not ask for nor desire. I will not replace the veil you loathed with a crown you hate. If you do not want to take the Crown, I will support you,” he swore, and the intensity in his words captured me. The irrevocable oath he was making. “And if you decide you want to take what is yours, claim the throne, I will set this entire kingdom on fire and watch it burn if that ensures that the crown sits on your head.”
I jolted. “You love your people—”
“But I love you more.” Flecks of gold burned brightly in his eyes, churning restlessly. “Do not underestimate what I would or would not do to ensure your happiness. I think you know this by now. There is nothing that I wouldn’t do, Poppy. Nothing.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“Always,” he whispered in the breath we shared. “Your heart was always safe with me. It always will be. There is nothing I will protect more fiercely or with more devotion, Poppy. Trust in that—in what you feel from me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I don’t want to pretend,” I whispered. “I’m Poppy and you’re Casteel, and this is real.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire