Rachel

“If you think your looks are what make you beautiful, you're wrong. You could have no arms and no legs and slither about blindly on your belly like an eel and I would still find myself utterly and completely enchanted by you. You, Samantha Cooper, are a phenomenon.”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, The Devil She Knows

“Maybe neither of us would remember, or only I would? I wasn't sure which was worse. Because I'd changed this summer in the garden, but imagining being the only one left to hold these memories hit a bruise deep in my heart. To be alone with the joy and to feel the shape of its loss.”
― Ashley Poston, The Someday Garden

“I’ve had the honor of watching you fall in love with me again and again. Now give me the chance to fall in love with you a second time... Loving you is the best thing I have ever done. As easy as taking a breath. You're not a weakness, Ellory. You're my strength. The best part of me, the best person I know.”
― Kamilah Cole, An Arcane Inheritance

“These children were not born to hate this way. They had been taught. They had watched their parents and they had watched the world and this is what they had been shown.”
― Clint Smith