Sruthi Kancherla

“You are your own best weapon.” Kestrel”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“What did you tell the queen?"
"I told Inisha about you."
"What, exactly?"
He hesitated. "I'm afraid to say."
"I want you to."
"You might leave."
"I won't."
He stayed silent.
She said, "I give you my word."
"I told her that I belong to you, and no other. I said that I was sorry.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“He struggled, knuckled his eyes, and let the words come. "I want you to be mine, wholly mine, your heart, too. I want you to feel the same way.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss