Jasmine

“My grief is undignified and sloppy. I love someone I don't really know, and it occurs to me that Frankie has felt this way my whole life. My love for her is new; what I'm receiving is old. Older than my breath, the very age of my heartbeat. Which means she's hurting now, even more than I am. I hurt for my hurt and hers and all the hurts to come.”
― Court Stevens, We Were Kings

“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery-some things are too precious to gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“One of the things I love about love is you don't have to be perfect for it to exist.”
― Court Stevens, We Were Kings

“My hands stopped shaking, my entire being focused on one thing: I would not let her die. I would burn the world twice over to save her life.”
― Isabel Ibañez, Where the Library Hides