Iris

“I would beg,” he murmured. “For you, I would. You have fucking destroyed me, Oraya. Do you know that?”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“She had finally found something that she had been chasing her entire short, fraught life. She would not know how to describe this for a very long time. But the word she was searching for was: purpose.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“Oraya of the Nightborn,” he murmured. “I give you my body. I give you my blood. I give you my soul. I give you my heart. From this night until the end of nights. From daybreak until our days are broken. Your soul is my soul. Your heart is my heart. Your pain is my pain. I bind myself to you.” I wanted it to all be a lie. But it was not a lie.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King