Lisa

“I felt you live and die for countless lives, felt every one of your life cycles end and grieved the woman I never got to meet. I know you, because you are the other half of me.” Those foreign blue eyes bled to black as he stared at me, and his magic hummed between us. “You are my mate, Estrella, and nothing will come between us now that I have you at my side.”
― Harper L. Woods, What Lies Beyond the Veil

“Because Danika was my mate.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“You were curled in the corner of the bed, completely absorbed in that book, as if it didn’t matter that you lived this brutal existence and had only a tiny room to call your own. It didn’t matter that you had to work so hard for everything. When you were reading, you were somewhere else. You were someone else.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“How are you?” “Good. Fine. I mean, I wish I were dead. But aside from that.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis