astarion's bhaal babe (wingspan matters)

“Back home in Tyndall, I couldn't avoid the fact that I'd been shaped by the loss of Lauren more than I cared to admit. What choice did you have, after all, when the person who had stood at the center of your sense of self wasn't there anymore? You grew around that damage like a tree wrapped in barbed wire.
You let it bite into you. You shaped yourself to the new reality, until it was hard to tell what was you and what was the hole she left.”
― Polly Stewart, The Good Ones

“Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from you.’” He trailed his fingers down my arm in slow, torturous strokes. My head fell back on his shoulder, my eyes fluttering closed, as his lips continued to move against my neck. “‘Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“I'm bisexual. Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You can choose to be happy with what life gives you...or spend your life miserable. I choose happiness. It's really that simple.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, At the Edge of the Universe