Jaime Alexander

“I am always thinking of you. I think of you in battle. I think of you in the dark of night. When my mind is silent or full, you wait there for me. It galls me that I want you as much as this. That my heart so thoroughly belongs to you. The power you have over me, Priya. Why does it refuse to fade?”
― Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword

“I feel her eyes on me like a shaft of sunlight, warming my skin wherever it touches.”
― Django Wexler, Ship of Smoke and Steel

“There were two truths inside Malini's heart. It was the colder one she spoke.
But the other was this. Because I need her. Because she saw me once, for everything I was and could be, and wanted me anyway. And she sees me and wants me still, over the chasm that should make enemies of us. And yet it does not. Cannot.”
― Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword

“Nothing in this world has earned the power to frighten you, Csorwe," he said. "You have looked your foretold death in the face and turned from it in defiance. Nothing in this world or any other deserves your fear.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name