Samaira

“I have spent my entire life being fine when I wasn't. I know the price. I know what it's like to bear that prince with every cell in your body. It isn't worth it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“Cardan is lying on the bed, bandaged and sulking, in a magnificent dressing gown. “I hate being unwell,” he says.

“You’re not sick,” Jude tells him. “You are recovering from being stabbed—or rather, throwing yourself on a knife.”

“You would have done the same for me,” he says airily.

“I would not,” Jude snaps.

“Liar,” Cardan says fondly.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“In your dreams, Bennett," she teased.
"Every damn night, Buxbaum,”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“Do you ever feel as if you wear armor, day after day? That when people look at you, they see only the shine of steel that you've so carefully encased yourself in? They see what they want to see in you—the warped reflection of their own face, or a piece of the sky, or a shadow cast between buildings. They see all the times you've made mistakes, all the times you've failed, all the times you've hurt them or disappointed them. As if that is all you will ever be in their eyes.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals