Mint

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Kuwei turned to Jesper. “You should visit me in Ravka. We could learn to use our powers together.”
“How about I push you in the canal and we see if you know how to swim?” Wylan said with a very passable imitation of Kaz’s glare.
Jesper shrugged. “I’ve heard he’s one of the richest men in Ketterdam. I wouldn’t cross him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“My whole life, all anyone's ever wanted was to possess me," said James. "The only one who ever set me free was you.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise

“Matthew laughed as he realized that he had dripped water all the way from the shower to the tub and that's what upset him.
"You just destroyed your entire room and you're mad at me for getting water on the floor?"
"It would have taken you no extra effort to grab a towel," Tarrick muttered.”
― Jex Lane, Broken