Jean

“I mean the kind of roots that happen privately between you and a certain place. Like you come to a place, and instead of planting a flag and saying mine, the place plants something in you. The place claims you, it knows your name and the crooked corners of your heart, and you've pledged yourself to it before you've even realized what's happening.”
― Sierra Simone, A Lesson in Thorns

“I’ve been lied to, abandoned, and broken. I’ve been shunned and stolen. I’ve spent too much of my life being told how to react to a man’s body. I was never told to listen to his heartbeat, or warned how the comfort of his embrace would firmly pull the threads of doubt until it unraveled completely, or that the unraveling would reveal such refuge underneath.”
― C.D. Reiss, Take Me

“You are not replaceable,” he said. His hands were shaking as he gripped her. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people. The reason I took that fucking Vow was to keep you alive. To keep you safe." - Chapter 52: Flashback 27”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“His eyes are no longer windows, but doors and mysteries and gates that I’ll never unlock. That privilege belongs to someone else.”
― Sierra Simone, A Lesson in Thorns