Laura Brantley

“There were men you owned. There were men you borrowed. And then there were men you took. I would never let anyone take him”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Tell me something, Violence.” A muscle in his square jaw ticks as he stares down at me, rippling the tawny-brown skin of his stubbled cheek. “Why is it always you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“This is what it's like to kill your father. This is what it’s like to kill everything your father could have been, if only the world hadn’t found him, done its thing to him.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

“And he’s not my boyfriend.” Rhi snorts and Ridoc offers me a sarcastic thumbs-up. “Agreed,” Xaden says. “That’s far too casual a term for what we are.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm