Ari ✧˖°.

“To have seen her so was worth a thousand years of burning to him. If he went to Hell for it, he only prayed God would not take away the memory.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart

“It’s hard to despise someone who lights up the world when they smile.”
― Charissa Weaks, The Witch Collector

“I need to make something perfectly clear.” She dips again, eyes focused on her task. “Should you die, I will not fall quietly into grief.” There’s a squeezing sensation in my chest, directly below the cloth now swiping over my left pectoral. “Moonbeam—” “I will not simply accept your absence as collateral for the privilege of having had you in the first place, nor will I carry myself with the same merciful poise you possess,” she bites out with regal fortitude, dipping the cloth. Strangles the water free with such might her knuckles pale. “I’ll wreck the world to avenge your death, Kaan Vaegor.”
― Sarah A. Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons

“They began a dance, the woman and the bird, a swinging and sweeping dance that defied the compass of the earth, marked by the flash of emeralds, the bells, and the white glory of the falcon’s twisting flight as it drove and stooped and chased the toll. Around and around the lure spun, beckoning and evading, mercurial, up and down and doubled back, the falcon keen and nimble in pursuit—an eternity— and yet before Ruck could take his eyes from them, before he could imprint the picture on his mind, before he could overcome the irresistible rise of his heart at the sight of the falcon’s dance, it was over.”
― Laura Kinsale, For My Lady's Heart