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“This is Si Si. My stupid heart thudded in my chest.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“Half of the booth was empty, and the other half was Silas and me, together. Our thighs nearly touching, his face, with its axeblade cheekbones and perfect fucking lips, was close enough I could see a faint scar on his eyebrow. And there was nothing friendly about the way he was looking at me in return. As if he were standing at a ledge, mustering the nerve to take the plunge.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“The shivers that danced over my skin couldn’t defeat the heat that burned in my veins. Goddamn you, Max.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“Except there was nothing poisonous about Max Kaufman. He was everything good that had been missing from my life for what felt like years. And it scared the shit out of me.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“His eyes roamed my face, studying me with his strange kind of curiosity that made my skin hot. His arm slid out of my grasp and I expected him to walk away. I did not expect him to slip his hand in mine and hold it tightly, palm to palm.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“I gripped him by the lapels of his jacket, hauled him to me, and the rest of his sentence was lost when I crushed my mouth to his and kissed him.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“I vowed to end the next person who tried to hurt him. I should’ve known that person would be me.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“You can choose a different life. Choose me, Silas. I’ll love you for who you are, and we’ll have a shot at happy.”
― Emma Scott, Someday, Someday

“The only problem with anger is that it burns hot and fast. It doesn’t tend to burn long. Sadness burns long. Grief. Disappointment.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“I realized that’s what I was afraid was going to happen on the nineteenth. My divorce would be final, my rage would finally burn out, and I’d be left with what was left of me. And that wasn’t much.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“I closed the distance between us and wrapped my arms around him. “I am here for you,” I whispered. “We’ll get through this together and everything will be okay.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“I could still smell her perfume on my shirt. I could still feel where she’d been pressed into my body, and I couldn’t ignore how much I liked it.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“I couldn’t wait to be alone with her. That was the reward.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“You know I fought. I did, I fought the same way you want to fight now. I gave everything I had, sacrificed every last thing I held dear, but this city is a beast that feeds on misery, and pain, and death, and it’s never full. We can throw ourselves down its throat until there’s none of us left, and we won’t have made the slightest lick of difference, Saeris. The people will suffer. The people will die.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Our ancestors were cursed millennia ago. As a result, we ended up with these,” he said, gesturing to his canines. “We used them to drink your kind dry. We drained you by the million before the blood curse was lifted. This was long before our time, of course, but the Fae line still bears the marks of its past. We might not need blood to maintain our immortality anymore, but by the gods, do we still have the teeth for it. Our dirty little secret. Our awful, horrible shame—”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“If I have enough hope for him, then I’ve enough for you, too.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Where do these people get their bottomless reservoirs of confidence? From a pot at the end of a rainbow?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“Fine,” he says, dropping his hand. “But you don’t have to hide, not anymore.” My expression goes cold. I force my legs to lock to disguise my trembling knees. “I told you. I’m always going to choose him.” I see the pale outline of his throat bob, like he’s taking in what I’m saying, getting a taste of the bitterness. His eyes, though, they’re drenched in it, and so is his voice when it hardens in a reply. “So be it.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glint