Ruby

“If he'd had a talent for art, he'd have wished to freeze time to paint her, just the way she was.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I knew nothing of love, but I knew I wanted her, needed her, and dreamed of her. It was the most inappropriate and irresponsible thing I could ever want for myself. I just wanted to feel, and a single touch from her set my body alight. I wanted her hands on every single part of me, and I wanted it more than I had ever wanted anything in my life. It was the most selfish desire in the world, but I wanted her more than a crown, more than a throne, more than air.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“So Callum had done what he always did—he pushed her away. Told her it meant nothing, that it was just sex and adrenaline. That he didn’t want her.
Every word of it had been a lie.
His heart belonged to her. Every beat it took, she owned. He knew, with bone-deep certainty, that he would never love another woman.”
― H.M. Wolfe, Daggermouth

“only with her did he not need to explain. Only with her did he not need to be king, or anything but what he was. Only with her would there be no judgment for what he'd done, who he'd failed, what he might still have to do.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash