Diana

“The elf came alive against him, his mouth and body hungry. He tried to pull forward, to tempt Akiem in, but this… just this kiss… was enough. It was just… right.”
― Ariana Nash, The Black Prince

“It was as if June had given her a box—as if every parent gives their children a box—full of the things they carried. June had given her children this box packed to the brim with her own experiences, her own treasures and heartbreaks. Her own guilts and pleasures, triumphs and losses, values and biases, duties and sorrows. And Nina had been carrying around this box her whole life, feeling the full weight of it. But it was not, Nina saw just then, her job to carry the full box. Her job was to sort through the box. To decide what to keep, and to put the rest down. She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“In that moment, panting out purple flame, eyes burning bronze, Akiem had never seemed more kingly. Alumn, he was a monster, but he was Zane’s monster.”
― Ariana Nash, The Black Prince

“Bronze eyes glowed in the mist. Zane’s breath caught. And then Akiem’s mouth slammed into his. He was all hardness and strength, but somehow also soft and precious.”
― Ariana Nash, The Black Prince