Kristen Rogers

“Dora knitted her brow. "You cannot have thought of Lady Cushing's ball," she said sceptically.
"I did not," Elias said. "I thought of you, Dora. But you are here, and so here I am." Those golden eyes held hers, and a flustered heat pooled against the surface of Dora's skin. "I did not come here only to dance. I came here only to dance with you. It is quite a different thing."
The dancing began, and it was a good thing that it did—Dora was suddenly certain that she could not manage to stay still beneath those eyes for even a moment longer.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“It may be true that you have only half a soul, Dora,” he whispered, with a surprising abundance of empathy in his voice. “But that does not make you half a person.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“I did not come here only to dance. I came here only to dance with you. It is quite a different thing.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“The soft atmosphere made her feel even more than usual that she was dreaming. But it was the sort of lovely dream that one dwelled purposely upon, unwilling to wake too soon.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul