Lace Mersch

“Magic had been gone all these years. And the gods were dead, or simply didn’t care anymore. Yet there, deep in her gut, was a small but insistent tug. A tug on a strand of some invisible web. So Celaena decided to tug back, just to see how far and wide the reverberations would go.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“You are not a weapon, Grey.” “I can be.” His hand lifts from my waist to brush a lock of hair from my cheek. “But you are by far more dangerous.” I can hardly think with his fingers tracing a line down the side of my face. “Ah, yes, the most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“So she left Rowan in the hall. But it did not stop her from wishing she could keep him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire