Readergirl

“I don’t need peace,” she said softly. “I want war.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“I'll tell you a story, I whispered. It always helped me sleep as a child.
He nodded, folding his hands over his lap, and closed his eyes.
There once was a girl, clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King, a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two-
I couldn't go on.
Elspeth.
No. I'm not ready. Not yet.
Finish the story, dear one.
My voice shook. The two were together-
Together.
So the two were the same.
The girl, he whispered, honey and oil and silk.
The King...
We said the final words together, our voices echoing, listless, through the dark. A final note. An eternal farewell. And the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Friend!” Qibli cried with delight. “You called me your friend! You DO adore me! Life goals: accomplished.” “I’m just saving syllables,” Winter snapped. “‘Friend’ is faster to say than ‘annoying clawmate.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Darkness of Dragons

“He couldn’t decide then what he loved most about her. He couldn’t choose, and he needn’t bother. She was unyielding tenderness; graceful strength. He wanted a life with her he was afraid even to fashion into thought. He wanted time with her he would never have. He wanted moments he did not deserve. Where she was everything, he was nothing, and never was this more apparent than now.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate