Tarja

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“This is our territory,” I said, giving him the words he needed. “We don’t allow black magic in our territory.”
― Patricia Briggs, Storm Cursed

“Hänen pienensä. Niin iso, että miltei joutui kumartumaan ovenkarmin alla, mutta silti hänelle aina pieni.”
― Maria Carole, Sinisen talon noita

“But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.”
― 墨香铜臭, 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]