Luna

“You know this means you lose your true blue Aussie card, right?” I narrowed my eyes at her, then flipped her off. “Like, dude, we punch sharks in the face and wrestle crocodiles, not run screaming from bears who just want to love you.”
― Sam Hall, Bears in Mind

“To give you my name is to give you the last of myself, and humanity has taken enough from me. My name is my own. You may not have it.”
― Venessa Vida Kelley, When the Tides Held the Moon

“This is the tale of how a chosen one falls. She does it screaming, clawing for her old life with broken fingernails. She does it slowly, over the course of decades. And in the end, she takes the whole forsaken world with her.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“I want to be happy.” His grip tightened on me then, crushing me against his chest. “I want to be appreciated, treated like I’m fucking special for once and not someone’s afterthought. I want to be—” “Loved.” His voice was deep, rich and throbbing with emotion. “You want to be loved in the way you fucking deserve, Nat, and I promise you, we’ll spend our entire lives trying to do that.”
― Sam Hall, Bears With Me