Tabitha

“I have never regretted a single moment of my life when it comes to you, Sirius Black." She leant forward and placed a gentle kiss on his lips. "Past, present, or future.”
― Shaya Lonnie, The Debt of Time

“This was wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. He was half my age. A criminal. Rush's ex-best friend. My new swimmer. I was his coach. An authority figure. The guy who promised to keep him in line. You can't save him. Maybe I can.”
― Cambria Hebert, Whistle

“I promised myself I'd wait until you turned twenty-one and that's in a few more weeks. I already know that's too damned far away.”
― Christine Feehan, Shadow Flight

“The desert exploded with life: yellow and pink flowers opened the tips of the cholla's spiny fingers; purple wildflowers sprang up in the meadows; and sunflowers lifted their heads. The Treaty of 1868 had been a victory, but not without cost. In order to secure a measure of freedom from the U.S. government, the Navajos had to accede to new methods of federal control. By signing the treaty, however, the government had acknowledged the Nagajos' sovereignty as a people, and that was a significant achievement. Now they had come home. Returning to Diné Bikéyah after four years of imprisonment and exile, the Navajos were trees blooming after a cold, dark winter.”
― Megan Kate Nelson, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West