Nicoline

“I need you," he said roughly. "Don't run away from me."
"How can you expect me not to run from you," said Alizeh, still trying to shake off her apprehension, "when you threatened just hours ago to have my eyes sewn shut?"
He looked sharply away from her then, a muscle jumping in his jaw. "I shouldn't have said that."
"And then you threw me off a cliff," she said, her voice a bit breathless even to her own ears.
"You wouldn't stop threatening to kill me," he said angrily, turning back to face her. "I was merely trying to change the subject.”
― Tahereh Mafi, These Infinite Threads

“I will say this once, angel, for I feel you should be warned. No man alive has ever loved a woman the way that I love you, and I would rather die, damned as I am, than disgrace us both with the pitiful, unrequited performance of my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“God, by the time I talk myself out of a fifth plate I think my stomach is in real danger of splitting open. What a way to die.”
― J. Bree, Broken Bonds

“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass