Brianna

“An entire generation was growing up in a world without sure principles by which to live in peace. And I couldn’t help but wonder, would my own son, after what he’d seen in the streets, come of age believing that there was no way to solve any problem but with a club or a pistol?”
― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

“The sword pulled free with a gruesome sucking sound that brought bile into Jason’s throat. The fellow collapsed, his eyes going dull as his bright blood spurted in a grotesque fountain that soaked Jason’s shirt and choked his nostrils with a salty, metallic stench. Stunned, he watched the blood pump hard then slow to a trickle—a spreading red puddle that seeped into the cracks between the stones. The dead man’s face drained of color, to match the white lace at his throat.”
― Lauren Royal, The Marquess's Scottish Bride

“She’d wanted nothing more than to escape Jackson’s and go home, yet now she was beginning to see that it was the people who made a home, not the place, and her home was dead.”
― Rachel M. Raithby, Winter Wolf

“cocaine or heroin.”
― Kate Cullen, Diary of a Wickedly Cool Witch 2: BOYFRIEND STEALER.