Crystal Williams

“Go to sleep, dweller-baby. I’ll kill Elowin as soon as we find her.” He didn’t sound like he was kidding. Each word was low and laced with truth.

“Next time, just say like … sleep well, or something normal,” I said. “Not go to sleep, I’ll be murdering someone in no time. It doesn’t sound as comforting as you think it does.”
― Jaymin Eve, Trickery

“Pull something out and show me.” I said thoughtlessly. Isaac started snickering, Ethan joined in. Asher was holding back a laugh, his cheeks turning pink. I thought about what I said and started laughing. There are just some things you can’t say in a room full of guys.”
― B.L. Brunnemer, Trying to Live With the Dead

“He was right in front of me. I hadn’t even seen him move. I jerked, pressing my back against the wall of the library. My bag slid off my shoulder, landing next to my feet. “Holy crap, you can move.”

“I can do a lot of things.” Angling his body, he pressed one palm against the wall beside my head. Good God, he was tall. “Some of them fast. Some of them real slow.”

My mouth opened. “Was that a s-sexual innuendo?”

His lips twitched. “Something along those lines.”

The heat was back in my face and throat, despite the chill bleeding from the wall through my lightweight sweater. “Well, it was a crappy one.”

“I can do better,” he offered, and those golden eyes finally lightened”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Return

“Some people don’t like you because you are comfortable being you and they don’t know how to be comfortable being them. Your confidence highlights their insecurity. Your success, in their minds, highlights their failures. When you are not comfortable with yourself, you will let others, who are not comfortable with themselves, dictate to you how to be when you are around them, either to make them more comfortable or to make you feel acceptable.”
― Bishop Rudolph McKissick, Jr., Won't He Do It!