Josephine

“Gasping, I try to drag air into my lungs. But I can’t breathe. A massive weight is crushing my chest and I can’t fucking breathe. Tears stream down my cheeks. I can’t move. I can’t think. Pain slashes through the torn remains of my bleeding heart. And all around me, the world keeps on going. The sun keeps on shining. The birds keep on singing. Rage and pain and utter devastation crash through my broken soul. Why is the sun still shining? Why are the birds still singing? How can the world possibly keep on going after this?”
― Marion Blackwood, Court of Lies and Deceit

“I have watched you for years. Seen the way you always try to help and always put everyone else first. And seen how people distrust you and hate you for something that isn’t your fault.”
― Marion Blackwood, Throne of Ice and Blood

“You want to destroy the world? I’ll help you burn it down. You want to kill everyone? I’ll help you slit their throats. There is nothing you can do that would make me stop loving you. I love you”
― Marion Blackwood, Realm of Wind and Vines

“There is nothing I wouldn’t do for you. I would crawl and grovel. I would slaughter entire nations.” His golden eyes sear through my very soul as he holds my gaze. “So you had better fight with everything you have to make it through this. Because if you die, I will rip my own heart out and then claw my way out of Azaroth’s fiery realm and break the barriers between our afterlives so that I can follow you in death into Mabona’s evergreen garden. I will never let you go. You are mine. In this life and every life after it.”
― Marion Blackwood, Court of Lies and Deceit