Lizzie

“I love that the girl who blushes so easily in my arms is the same one who would kill a man for hurting me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“I’m in love with you, Aurelia. The kind of love where at first I couldn’t get you out of my head, and after that, I never wanted to. The kind of love where I would take a thousand more whippings if it meant I’d have you at the end of it.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Wrath of the Storm

“What?" Almost delicately, he takes a strand of my hair and tucks it behind my ear. The gentleness is at odds with the look in his eye, and what is going on behind me. My breath catches. “It’s just a dream,” he says. “We don’t have to do it my way. I can be gentle, if you like.” My mouth dries. “Blake. . .” He cups my face in both hands. “Let me have you. Just once. Please.”
― Lauren Palphreyman, The Night Prince

“Let me have you. Just once. Please.”
― Lauren Palphreyman, The Night Prince