Jennifer

“If you have a plan," hissed Sumael from the corner of her mouth, "now would be the time."

"I have a plan," said Nothing.

"Does it involve swords?"

A pause. "All my plans do."

"Do you have a sword?"

Another. "No."

"How will you succeed without one?" Muttered Sumael.

A third. "Death waits for us all.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“Stop looking at her and you might live longer,” Curran said, his voice nice and friendly.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Shifts

“Mac draws up short to keep from slamming into Barrons and her blonde hair swings back over her shoulder, brushing his face as it goes and my hearing is so good I catch the rasp of it chafing the shadow stubble on his jaw, then one of his hands grazes her breast and his eyes narrow when he looks at what he touched in a hungry way I want a man to look at me like one day and, as they continue to recover from the near-collision, their bodies move in a graceful dance of impeccable awareness of precisely where the other is at all times that is unity, symbiosis, partnership I only dream of, wolves that chose to pack up and hunt together, soldiers who will always have each other’s back no matter what, no sin, no transgression too great, ‘cause don’t we all transgress sometimes and it fecking slays me, because once I got a little taste of what that was like and it was heaven and they’re so beautiful standing there, the best of the best, the strongest of the strong that they practically glow to me, on fire with all I ever wanted in my life—a place to belong and someone to belong there with.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“As usual, I’m working with stuff that was deliberately designed not to burn. But no amount of careful design by NASA can get around a determined arsonist with a tank of pure oxygen.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian