Amy

“You owe no man anything, Mariko."
"Especially not a man such as he." Mariko scowled. "Regardless, I will never be one of those ladies at court who worships a man."
"No matter the man?" Ōkami joked. "Even if he worshipped you?"
"No," Mariko said. "Not even for you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Smoke in the Sun

“God above, you’re beautiful,’ he breathed.
‘You don’t believe in God,’ I reminded him, my voice low.
‘Right now, I think I just might.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall

“I'm not good at losing people, Amani, and you know I don't give a damn about this country." The rest of him was still now, something solid to hang on to. But his fingers were sliding into my hair, making me shiver. "I give a damn about you and you are this place. I thought I had to do without you if you were so determined to leave the world. But then you were gone and I would have torn the desert apart looking for you.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I don't want just a night or a week or a month with you. I want you all the time. I like you better than calculus, and math is the only thing that unites the universe.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient