Charlene

“I will say this once, angel, for I feel you should be warned. No man alive has ever loved a woman the way that I love you, and I would rather die, damned as I am, than disgrace us both with the pitiful, unrequited performance of my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“You are no one's weapon, Lyra," Grayson said, his tone making it perfectly clear just how rarely he lost arguments of any kind, "bomb or otherwise, and you are certainly not a pawn."
"Then what am I?" Lyra retorted, her gaze returning to his like a homing missile.
"You are lethal," Grayson said quietly, "in the best possible way.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Glorious Rivals

“My life, my heart, my blood—they’re already yours. Heaven knows I have nothing left to give you that isn’t already in pieces.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“All that stands between a hero and villainy is proper motivation, "he says. "Love provokes the hero as violently as it does the villain, and it's merely who tells the story that determines which is which.”
― Shannon J. Spann, A Stage Set for Villains