Samantha

“I had forgotten that people could be that way. I had forgotten that someone, somewhere, was painting terrible pictures of their wife in a garden. I was so far gone that I didn't even remember that that kind of mundane contentment actually existed, least of all in the same moments as such terrible things.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“Stories are meant to be shared," Melu said gently, "but no one was made for another person, Tarisai.”
― Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer

“I wanted him in so many ways. As a friend, as a kindred soul, as a fierce teammate. As skin and lips and teeth. As a hitched breathless moan in the darkness or a lazy embrace in the sunrise. I wanted that. I wanted it all.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“The way I look at it", he said, very solemnly, so quietly that his words slipped into the air like steam, "you didn't forget what you were. I think you remembered. And I hope no one ever again has the fucking audacity to tell you otherwise.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds