Stephanie

“I will love you to ruination,” the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of golden hair from my cheek. “Yours or mine?” I asked. The Fairy King did not answer.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“And you found you did not mind being a devil, so long as you were his.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint

“But all he could think of was Inej. She had to live. She had to have made it out of the Ice Court. And if she hadn't, then he had to live to rescue her.
The ache in his lungs was unbearable. He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You woke panting and sweating, your body fighting battles you’d already won or hadn’t yet fought.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint