Camila Marques

“I shoved him. "Kishan. Kishan! Wake up!"

He woke only halfway and pulled me closer. "Shh, go back to sleep. It's not morning yet."

"Yes, it is morning." I pushed against his ribs. "Time to wake up. Come on!"

"Okay, honey, but how about a kiss first? A man needs some motivation to get out of bed."

"That kind of motivation keeps a man in bed. I'm not kissing you. Now get up.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest

“I finally found him sitting on his balcony. He was leaning back against the wall with his eyes closed. Soft music played, and a cool ocean breeze blew back my hair as I stepped on to the balcony and inhaled the scent of the sea.
"May I join you?" I asked softly.
He didn’t bother opening his eyes. "If you like."
The moon in the dark sky looked like a giant white plate dipping its edge into the ocean. We sat quietly for a while. I closed my eyes too and listened to him hum along in harmony with the music.
"You haven’t played your guitar in a long time. I miss it," I said when the song was finished.
Ren turned away. "I fear there is no music left in me.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Destiny

“(..)Fate has al­ways been a po­tent force in Rus­sia, where, for gen­er­ations, cit­izens have had lit­tle con­trol over their own des­tinies. Fate can be a bitch, but, as Za­it­sev, Dvornik, and Onofre­cuk had dis­cov­ered, it can al­so be a tiger.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

“There is still a piece of my heart that belongs to you. I have cherished it all these centuries.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Destiny