Mikaela

“Graves came closer to me and gazed at the swirling dancers. “The women in there are pretty,” he said. He was right. I was no prize. Then he leaned in, whispering into my ear. “But you? You are resplendent.”
― Elle Swanson, A Bargain of Blood and Starlight: Book One in the Curses Beneath Starlight Series

“How could she ever teach new arrivals to fly? How could she dare to unfurl their wings with the tenderness they deserved when she would always remember the ones she had broken?”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight

“I suppressed a smile. "I'm always intrigued by a closed door.”
― Elle Swanson

“Clarion." He said her name like a plea. "Weighed against your life, they are nothing to me. I would make that trade every time.”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight