Carmen

“Rex as the big guy turned. My lungs tightened with a surge of . . . something. Like if anticipation and nausea and excitement and fear had an orgy, giving birth to a baby, and that baby had cold hands that could reach into your chest and squeeze your lungs. Yeah. Like that.”
― Penny Reid, Homecoming King

“I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“The world was full of unknowns”
― Iris Beaglehole, The Crone of Elders Blaze

“He went on. “You are not among the good that has happened to me. You are the best of all that I have known. You are what I searched for when I left that house and wandered this earth, boy and man. You are the part of myself I never thought to find because I did not even dare to dream you existed. You are all that I want and more than I deserve, and I will go to my grave thanking a god in whom I do not believe for bringing me to you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, An Unexpected Peril