Lillie

“She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to try.”
― Thea Harrison, Lord's Fall

“Bull. Look, sometimes certain kinds of pain bring important lessons. Those lessons harden you, prepare you for your life and the only way to learn them, the only way to be a better, stronger and yes, harder person to survive the world outside is to learn those lessons first hand. Pain forges strength.”
― Lauren Dane, Chaos Burning

“No. No he didn't break you, my dear." Inhuman eyes probed hers delicately. "The most he managed was a bend here and there. Apparently he has forgotten that the beat of the hammer in the flame's heart only strengthens a good blade.”
― Angela Knight, Master of Darkness

“He might be a vampire, hunter of the night and all-around badass, but a woman scorned was fucking scary.”
― Dana Marie Bell, Blood of the Maple