Anna

“And you two could use someone else around. Aunt Lillian, you’re too hard on Ash, and he’s going to start having the vapors and taking to the fainting couch.”

“Oh, thanks,” Ash snapped, and Jared grinned at him.

“You can’t be mean to him all the time. I want to be mean to him sometimes. We can switch days. I doubt we can get along,” Jared said. “But we could rely on each other enough to know that we’ll turn on anyone who goes after one of us. And we could have fights and know nobody’s going to run away and live in the tavern.”

“You can rest assured, Jared,” Lillian said, very drily, “I do not ever intend to run away and live in the tavern. ”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Untold

“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I’d like to be better,” Jared said abruptly. “I’d like to be better, to you. I want to make things better for you.”

“That would be nice,” said Kami. “However, you could not have faced down the sorcerer with me today.”

“Why not?” Jared asked, and looked at her under his lashes. “As long as I was with you, and I hadn’t run off to do something suicidal on my own. As long as we were together, wouldn’t that be better?”

“Usually yes, today no,” Kami told him. “Because it was in a ladies’ bathroom, and that would be scandalous”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Untold

“She said I could touch her when I was sober”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless