Nada Hosny

“He took my hand, interlacing our fingers. “We can make whatever rules we want. You have every right to question me, push me—both in private and in public.” A snort. “Of course, if you decide to truly kick my ass, I might request that it’s done behind closed doors so I don’t have to suffer centuries of teasing, but—”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“And though his face was calm, his shoulders thrown back, I said, I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything that I am. His hand squeezed mine in answer before he laid my fingers on his arm, raising it enough that we must have painted a rather courtly portrait as we entered the chamber. You bow to no one, was all he replied.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“The pain of losing them once you have sealed them into your heart is hardly worth the pleasure of holding them to begin with.”
― Anna Jane Greenville, The Girl Who Was a Gentleman

“Why do I have to choose between being me and being somebody's wife?”
― Anna Jane Greenville, The Girl Who Was a Gentleman