Elyse

“He would have slain a thousand men to remove the raw anguish weeping from her eyes.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Will there ever come a time when you won't see me as a monster?' he asked suddenly.
She stopped at the softness of his tone, so unlike the unfeeling prince she had come to know. Some part of her wanted to reach for him, to smooth away the unhappiness creasing his face, to touch the scars that made him him.
'Monsters cannot become men,' she whispered instead, and the darkness hummed its agreement.
He exhaled through parted lips, and his unhappiness only increased. 'Of course. That was selfish of me.'
That does not mean I cannot love a monster.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“It was the loveliest knife she’d ever been stabbed with in her life.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Family Next Door

“I've never seen a face more open,' he said with a soft laugh before growing intent, stealing her breath. 'You do it for them. For them to love you.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame