Dena Akbar

“Layla would…” It wasn’t that she’d die for me—she threw herself in danger for a near stranger. It was that I could lay my head in her lap and know I’d wake safe.”
― Ellen Mint, Fang

“My lower lip trembled, unsure of what this all meant. Afraid to speak to the hope in my heart. “Friends?” I asked, but he shook his head. “I want to be more than friends.” And then he kissed me.”
― Gracie Graham, Hate Notes

“order”
― Frank Zafiro, Beneath a Weeping Sky

“that nothing can break. No distance, no circumstance, no power, can rend it. There is no darkness, no storm that can put out its light. It is that which inspires us, encourages us, heals us, binds us one to another in innumerable ways of the heart and soul. And every step in between, no matter how difficult, is ordered and protected. Love is the song from which the One-Who-Is-Three sings us into being. It is love that calls us home to itself. It is love from which we spring and love to which we return. In the end, it is always love that saves us.”
― Leigh Roberts, The Edge of Hope