Zoe

“I don’t want to think about anything in my real life. That’s what books are for. To take you away . . .”
― Sophie Lark, The Heir

“I was thinking," he murmurs. "There'a billion different versions of you out there, in a trillion different universes. And I still can't get over how lucky I am that, out of all those versions, you're the one that's mine.”
― Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio

“Highest on the wall, in a place of honor, is the slingBlade I used at the Institute. I look at it for a long time before I take it down. It is far heavier than my razor and far smaller than I remember. I swing it till it makes a swish swish. I laughed at him when I saw it there the first time, laughed even harder when I found out how much trouble he went through to track it down. But I think I skipped past the part that mattered—how much the blade meant to him. With his father always away, always secretive and frightened to show his love, that blade gave Sevro something to follow. Something to dedicate his life to. Until he found something else.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“They tried to shoot my … Rowan through the heart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows