Haley

“She was meant for needlework and gossip, not pistols and blackmail.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“You were always so full of hope, so maddeningly tenacious. And then, oh, then, Liska, Liseczka, the worst thing of all happened.’ His voice cracks, and he looks away. ‘I fell in love.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

“It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, after all, a girl in a
man’s world, but it snuck through every once in a while. When she turned a certain way. When she lit up at Jin’s words or countered Matteo’s provocations or slid a glance at Laith. When the waves of her hair caught
the light, illuminating the copper of her skin and making her gaze come
alive with mischief.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“The corner of his mouth pulls up in that laughing half-smile. ‘I do so love when you command me.”
― A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still