augustine

“She knew Jacks was far too dangerous a person to truly fall for. But she could no longer deny that it was happening. She couldn’t deny that she wanted him. Just enough to keep her from pulling away every time he touched her. Enough to keep his name near the tip of her tongue even when he wasn’t in the room. The physical attraction had always been there, but her pull toward him had been increasing ever since the night they’d jumped off that cliff together.
Because she’d never actually stopped falling.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“You're not here to hurt me.'

'You don't know that.' A muscle ticked in his jaw. 'This morning I nearly tossed you over the side of a bridge.'

'You also just killed someone to save my life.'

'Maybe I just enjoy killing people.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“It is strange that I am dying from a diseased womb, I who have never had periods, I who have never known men.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“even a person raised in captivity learns to want, yearns to see beyond their cage. How much of our humanity is intrinsic? How much remains, when all else is stripped away?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men