Salma (inactive)

“And it hits me. I love this woman. I don’t know when it happened. It slipped over me so softly, like the changing of seasons. The seeping scent of baked bread first thing in the morning. A wistful sigh on a perfect fall day. I love Michelle. I’ve loved her for far too long.”
― Julie Olivia, If It Makes You Happy

“Can’t I just heal him again?” She leaned toward him, as if she’d do just that.
Hafiza shook her head. “It is part of the balance—the cost. Do not tempt the compassion of the force that granted this to you.”
But Chaol touched Yrene’s hand. “It is no burden, Yrene,” he said softly. “To be given this. It is no burden at all.”
Yet agony filled her face. “But I—”
“Using the chair is not a punishment. It is not a prison,” he said. “It never was. And I am as much of a man in that chair, or with that cane, as I am standing on my feet.” He brushed away the tear that slipped down her cheek.
“I wanted to heal you,” she breathed.
“You did,” he said, smiling. “Yrene, in every way that truly matters… You did.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“You offer this of your own free will?
Yes. With my entire heart.
It had been his from the start, anyway.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“Grief seems like a privilege, in a way,” she says. “To have loved someone so much that you can’t imagine life without them.”
― Liz Tomforde, Play Along