Foxtrot

“Nikeya seemed to give up the fight. She pressed close again, and Dumai wrapped both arms around her shoulders.
‘I am only doing this to keep you warm,’ Dumai told her.
‘Of course,’ Nikeya murmured. ‘If that is all I ever have of you, I will accept it.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“I barely understand it, the way I would willingly kneel for you, anywhere, for anything. The way I would fight for you. The way I want to be at your side. Is that what love is, Malini? Is that how awful love is? Because if it is, then I love you, the way that roots love the deep and leaves love the light. It’s—the way I am. And no matter how much I try to be good, to do right—I’m all flowers in your arms, for your war, for you—”
― Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword