Amanda

“What I feel? Like how I want to take your pain away and yet throttle you at the same moment? How your stupid dimples are infuriating, look for them every time you smile because I know that's a real smile. I don't know why I look forward to arguing with you, but I do. You're clever, and you are kinder than even you realise- even though I know you have earned the title of the Dark One. You are a puzzle I want to figure out, but at the same time, don't. And when I realised You have so many masks- so many layers, I kept wanting to peel them back, even though I fear it will only hurt more in the end.'

I shook my head as I curled my fingers around the collar of my tunic. 'I don't understand any of this. Like how do I want to stab you and kiss you at the same time? And I know you said that I deserve to be with someone who didn't kidnap me, or someone I don't want to stab-'

'Forget I said that,' he said, closer to me when I looked up. 'I have no idea what I was talking about. Maybe I didn't even say that.'

My lips twitched. 'You totally said that.'

'You're right. I did. Forget it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Why are you being so nice to me?”
“Because you’re mine.”
“What if I wasn’t?”
“There isn’t a universe or reality where you’re not.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, One Cursed Rose

“Get that son of a bitch to jail,” he said
through his teeth, “before I kill him!”
His eyes were testimony enough to the intent of the
statement. He’d forgotten law, duty, honor, everything, in
the grip of the worst fear he’d ever felt. If she died, he
would be lawless. Nothing would matter to him in the
world, ever again, except revenge.”
― Diana Palmer, Lawless

“Yes, years,” he says. “Decades, if that’s what it takes. You don’t get it, little violet. A love like ours? It’s meant to last. But at the end of things, this I swear to you: you will wear my ring. I will serve you on my knees. And we will never be parted until the sky itself falls into the sea.”
― Evie Marceau, Silver Wings Golden Games