Milk

“I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this”—I throw his own words back at him—“this is the least of what I can do.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“But it was only at the end that I realized,” I said. “He loved me as a thing belonging of him. Not as a person.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“I wish our story could have had another ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds