Lucie V.

“Always,” he whispered in the breath we shared. “Your heart was always safe with me. It always will be. There is nothing I will protect more fiercely or with more devotion, Poppy. Trust in that—in what you feel from me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I would say I’m sorry, but you wouldn’t believe me. I don’t blame you for that, but don’t you dare insinuate that what I’ve done with you was purely an act or that what I’m feeling is fake when I’ve spent my entire godsdam life not being allowed to want or even feel anything for myself! Not when I spent the last three years hating myself for the relief I felt when you didn’t take me because it meant I didn’t have to do what was expected of me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“What does…meyaah Liessa mean?” That eyebrow seemed to climb even higher. “It means my Queen.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“I wish we could live here forever. But the longer we stay, the more it's like- like we're stealing moments of happiness. Like these moments aren't ours at all.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey