Ixchel

“She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“I cannot afford to lose you, too"
"You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“This was not a love he had heard of, this was not a love sung by poets, celebrated in stories.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken