Alex Ryder

“Be wary. Be clever. Be good.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“I wanna ask if you really said you’d pepper spray her, but I already know the answer.”

Pressing my lips together, I shrugged.

He reached up toward me and brushed the backs of his fingers over my cheek, still smiling wide, and pinched my chin. “You’re fucking nuts.”

All I did was shrug again. “You know that, but you’re still here, aren’t you?”

His smile melted into a smaller one, and the deep breath he let out made it seem like it had weighed a thousand pounds. Then his fingers brushed over my cheek again, and Dallas moved to tuck a strand of her behind my ear. His voice was soft. “I’m still here, Peach.”
― Mariana Zapata, Wait for It

“She smiled. And that smile damn near killed me. Beautiful in her simple joy. I’d never seen anything like it.”
― Zoey Draven, Throne of the Horde King

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden