Ivy

“Hawke wasn’t the catalyst. He was the reward.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I became a thief, Manon. I squatted in dirty theaters and stole food from innocent bakers. I did bad things to good people. I killed. I lied and cheated and smoked and drank and even slept with a prostitute once. So it amounts to the same thing. I’ll burn in hell either way.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“You want to cry, because you remember what sex used to mean to you, before. Before you realized how good it could feel, before you discovered what you liked. But you push it out of your mind. You push it all out of your mind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I was being designed to be two opposing things, a complicated image that was hard to dissect but easy to grab on to. I was supposed to be both naive and erotic. It was as if I was too wholesome to understand the unwholesome thoughts you were having about me. It was bullshit, of course. But it was an easy act to put on.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo