princess miya

“His golden eyes raked her up and down, clearly aghast.
"I would have thought the situation was self-evident," Dora told him calmly. "Does a man of your formidable knowledge really require the concept of laundry to be explained to him?"
Elias pinched at the bridge of his nose with his fingers, sucking in a breath. "My dear Miss Ettings," he said slowly. "You are standing in a viscount's back garden in your unmentionables, washing your dress in a fountain. Have you truly no concept of the strangeness of your situation?"
Dora paused, looking down at her dress where it soaked beneath her hands.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“I no longer think love is a guarantee of victory or of happily ever after. But I think it's a reason to fight for those things. I know my attempt to save Jacks could end in a fiery explosion, but I'd rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“sometimes people and places serve a purpose for a finite amount of time to help you think and grow and love and then you move on.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark