Ingrid Spera

“I was a mess of contradictions. I craved intimacy, and yet, when offered it, I found myself unworthy. I wanted affection, and yet, when someone showed me how much they cared, I shrank from that trust, as if it were a collar around my throat. I did not know what I desired anymore. I had been the one to come here late at night, to wake him from his rest, to demand his attention, and now I was the one pulling away, trying to hurt him, trying to hide from him. And still there was a part of me that long to be known, that begged him to forgive me, to understand me, to not let me push him away.”
― K.X. Song, The Dragon Wakes with Thunder

“I told you what I am," he said, his voice a low rasp. " But what I didn't tell you is this - if they had taken your life today, I would have hunted down every last one of them. I would have scoured the Three Kingdoms for every soul responsible - and I would have given each of them a slow, slow death. And then, once I was finished, I would have followed you to the afterlife. I would have found you, and dragged you back from the hands of Death itself.”
― K.X. Song, The Dragon Wakes with Thunder

“I tried to ignore the visceral discomfort that Rose at the dragon's words. For these were qualities I desired in myself. Xiuying was benevolent and tender-hearted. Sky was noble and kind. These were traits I tried to mimic, strengths I knew that Heroes of every Legend possessed. But who was I diluting? I was not the hero of this story.”
― K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire

“I see a girl who is either brave—or insane—enough to let the creature who is going to kill her plug her c***. And that goes far beyond external beauty—that fact makes her spectacular.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Nightmare