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“Even here, with her fingers tangled up in my hair, each press of her lips feels like a claiming. Her touches say mine, mine, mine, but now there’s this echo of for now.”
― Isabel Sterling, This Spell Can't Last

“I am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“How could something that was said to be so wrong do all of that? How could something the gods supposedly denied feel like a baptism? How could it feel like faith?”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Unleash the Merciless Storm