Juliette Townsend

“Happy?” I asked around a mouthful. One side of his lips curved. A piece of egg may have fallen from my mouth and quite possibly plopped onto my plate. All the training I’d gone through was a waste. I was terrible at seduction.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“I’ll be a straitjacketed bookworm burrowed into the binding of an insane, homicidal book, staring helplessly out from the pages of my own life, as they’re writ by someone else, and I’d commit atrocities that would damn a saint’s soul.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“Incredible,” Blackwell echoed. “The audacity of men worth less than dirt.”
― Kaylie Smith, Phantasma

“I would say I’m sorry, but you wouldn’t believe me. I don’t blame you for that, but don’t you dare insinuate that what I’ve done with you was purely an act or that what I’m feeling is fake when I’ve spent my entire godsdam life not being allowed to want or even feel anything for myself! Not when I spent the last three years hating myself for the relief I felt when you didn’t take me because it meant I didn’t have to do what was expected of me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember