Karen Ibet

“But you are. You are worth all that trouble. You are worth walking through a fucking fire. Don’t you see that?”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“I wasn’t pretending, Catalina. Not for a minute. It was all real for me. That’s why it meant so much.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“You are all that, Catalina. You are light. And passion. Your laughter alone can lift my mood and effortlessly turn my day around in a matter of seconds. Even when it's not aimed at me. You... can light up entire rooms, Catalina. You hold that kind of power. And it's because of all the different things that make you who you are. Each and every one of them, even the ones that drive me crazy in ways you can't imagine. You should never forget that.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“But nobody ever tells you what to do when you don’t die, when you’re lying there and something is touching you and you’re pretending to be asleep because everybody knows that monsters can’t get you as long as you’re asleep and your heart pounds but you keep not dying and you stubbornly remain conscious and it keeps happening.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones