Mars

“I'm human," he said in a tormented tone. "And I'm not." He dropped his hand to her shoulder. "I never knew softness," he breathed. "Not until the moment you touched me in your store. My life is violent and dangerous. Its dark and twisted and no place for someone like you. I have more people wanting me dead than I can count. They will stop at nothing, and you.." He ground his teeth before he spoke again. "You'll never want again for anything in your life. I swear it on what little bit of human soul I have left.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Play

“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne