Ingrid Spera

“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

“I'm not a good person, Meilin," he said. "But the difference between me and your little Anlai hero-I've never pretended otherwise.”
― K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire

“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

“Oh,” I said quietly, putting all the pieces together at last. “You’re worried I’ll see you hurt him and think things about when you’re going to hurt me, and have you realized you’re an idiot?” His head snapped back like I had slapped him. “If you looked around in that drawer back in my room you would’ve seen enough pills to kill myself ten times over—and do you know why I’ve got them all and hoarded them so carefully? To give up and fucking do that. But now, I don’t have to, Sylas—you’ll do it for me—and until then, I am fucking on this ride. You and I, and however many hims it takes,” I said, flinging an arm out at the still-hovering Nolan. “But I’m not going anywhere. Not without you. Not from here on out.”
― Cassie Alexander, Guarded by the Nightmare