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

“He couldn’t decide then what he loved most about her. He couldn’t choose, and he needn’t bother. She was unyielding tenderness; graceful strength. He wanted a life with her he was afraid even to fashion into thought. He wanted time with her he would never have. He wanted moments he did not deserve. Where she was everything, he was nothing, and never was this more apparent than now.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“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

“I would lose my life for you before finding something else worth living for.” His fingers weave into my hair, slide along the back of my neck. “You are my inevitable. In life and in death.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless