Maxine Linklater

“We’d been two broken souls that had healed together. And I’d never been happier. Forever had started for me the first time he’d kissed me. And every day since.”
― Laura Pavlov, Wild River

“You remember what Andrew said. He told me to tone it down. I’m doing too much. I’ve always felt like… like I take up too much space. Like my dreams are too big. Like I’m wrong for wanting to be the best in an industry that tries so hard to make me feel small and shove me in a tiny box.” “You don’t take up too much space, Avery,” Reid says around a shaky breath. “You should take up more. All of it, if you can, and the last place a person like you should ever be is in a fucking box.”
― Chelsea Curto, Off Camera

“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I’ll tell you what’s changed.” He cleared his throat. “I love you, Ruby. I love you in a way I never knew I was capable of. And I will fight for you, for us, every fucking day. That’s what’s changed. I realized these last few days that I was never afraid of loving you. It was losing you that scared the shit out of me.”
― Laura Pavlov, Wild River