Natali

“Our relationship was never one of raw need. That doesn't mean I cared any less about her, but it wasn't like this. There was no constant need to be inside her in every way imaginable, and even ways not yet thought of. I never found myself constantly hungering, and I believe you need that to find yourself exploring those things with someone you're commited to," he said, and my breaths became shorter and shallower. "I never had what I have with you with her, Poppy.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

“I need you all to tuck your dicks in for a second and try to think rationally. Like a woman.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“But the trauma on the inside, that’s harder to see. It creeps around your mind, poisons you with disquiet. It can hit you out of nowhere, debilitating and ruinous. There are no marks visible for those. None, save the shadows in your eyes.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“Don't answer now, but I want to know if what you said then stands."
"You'll have to be more specific. I said a great many things."
"If I am still yours."
He stilled. My words hung between us, heavy and lingering. Like his gaze.
"If I am, I would tell you that you are mine. That I am choosing you as my husband. There is no one I'd rather confront my demons with, no soul I'd travel through Hell with. And no one else I want standing beside me when I go to the Shifting Isles tomorrow."
He was quiet for a long moment, seeming to gauge my sincerity and weigh it against his own feelings. "And if I don't require time to think it over?"
Thank the goddess.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed