Nicole

“Coconut,” he whispered. “Um. Would you please go hit my grandfather?” The”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkstalker

“I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?
One piece at a time.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“She stole his breath now, and he had no breath to spare.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch