Written in Red (The Others, #1)

by Anne Bishop

Be a leader for your people. Be the voice that decides who lives and who dies within your Courtyard. The day will come when a life you save will, in turn, save someone dear to you.

Little did I know this would make me want to SOBBBBB

Those kinds of interruptions tend to fray the tolerance each side has for the other—and when tolerance frays, people tend to die. Sometimes a lot of people die.”

Yikes. Tolerance is the solutions folks.

“It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.

Simon's wolf freaking out over the fact that he accidentally made her cry and NOW HE CARES that she is crying is peak slow burn

“It’s not a leash,” a young, scratchy voice shouted. Or tried to shout. “It’s a safety line. Adventure buddies use a safety line so they can help each other.”

LISTEN, I knew this was coming but it still hit different when it did

Awkward, because somehow she was starting to matter to him the way his own people mattered.

you want to kill me

There would be a spike in the number of girls who went out for a walk in the woods and were never heard from again. There always were when stories came out portraying the terra indigene as furry humans who just wanted to be loved.

"we should sell the stack of vampire-as-lover stories" lmao this is peak comedy

She looked pale, and it bothered him.

you don't understand, IT BOTHERED HIM.

Too much fear makes people stupid.

hard pills to swallow

Happy Meg made him calmer.

you don't understand, IT MADE HIM CALMER.

He kissed her forehead and found the act pleasing for its own sake.

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE FOUND THE ACT PLEASING FOR ITS OWN SAKE

They had responded to the cut on her leg with the intensity usually reserved for an amputation.

lmao anne is funny af

“You monkeys have no word for what I am.”

AMREN WISHES she could be this cool.

“Do you think we care about her because of her skin? She’s not property to us. She’s Meg.”

SHE IS MEG.a Sobs over my cereal bowl

The Meg Report. Meg is here. Meg is fine.

meg is here, meg is fine. I am not tho