Nikki

“That was why he and Dez were different. They knew the rules were a lie. He was scared to be alone; she was scared to be with people. He felt like he'd fade away if he wasn't touched; she felt like she'd be smothered out of existence if she was. He'd wanted so badly to die and make all the pain end; she still did. Everyone knew pain, but some lived closer to it than others.”
― Auryn Hadley, Flawed

“Money makes people foolish, and it makes them confident, and confident foolishness is a dangerous, dangerous combination. Because when their foolishness loses that money, their confidence blames it on someone else, and it makes them volatile and sometimes even violent.”
― Chloe Garner, The Queen's Seal

“I’ve missed you every day for ten years,” he whispered, his voice hoarse. “And I didn’t know what it was I was missing, only I felt something inside me was lost or gone, and I didn’t know how to fill it. How could I? It was you. It was always you.”
― Katherine Macdonald, A Song of Sea and Shore

“I knew that whatever evil they were capable of, whatever carelessness, they were just as capable of kindness, and for that reason alone I would defend them until I was no more than foam on the sea.”
― Katherine Macdonald, A Song of Sea and Shore