Crystal Denny

“All this time, she had thought of him as her persecutor and herself as the maligned victim of his pride, intimidated into submission because she refused to hurt him. But Ramin had been living in a different story, with himself as the hero, protecting his family from a demon in their midst that only he could recognize.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

“No, it wasn’t that he had killed them that bothered her—it was that he had done it so well.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

“Beautiful yet deadly, he had called her. Somehow, he made one sound as sweet as the other.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

“There’s something restless growing within you. We’re all very curious to see what happens when it breaks free.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn