Barbara Douglas

“You might be my mate, he said, but you remain your own person. You decide your fate - your choices. Not me. You chose yesterday. You choose every day. Forever.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I’m thinking it would be very easy to love you. And easier to call you my friend.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“With a clear moment of insight, Charls saw that Lamen was not a cloth merchant’s assistant. He was the prince’s private companion, and had no real skills whatsoever.”
― C.S. Pacat, The Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant

“And then his arms were folding around her, and in that small gesture, she understood, felt it down to her bones, that draw, not the electric pulse of power but the thing beneath it, the weight she'd never understood. In a world where everything rocked and swayed and fell away, this was solid ground.

Safe.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light