Kat

“Laurent entered, an edge to his grace, like a leopard with a headache.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“He loved the flaws; they were invariably the most interesting parts of people's faces and bodies, the parts that held the straightest lines, the most beautiful shadows. Wounds and deformities and cracks and boils and stomachs: this was the stuff that moved Engales. Usually while he detailed the broken nose or sketched a lumpy body he felt as if he was zeroing in on what it meant to be alive. He could hear his father saying: The scratches are what makes a life.”
― Molly Prentiss, Tuesday Nights in 1980

“A ludicrous boyish hope flared that someone would come to help him, and, carefully, he extinguished it.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“He looks like a faerie lover stepped out of a ballad, the kind where no good comes to the girl who runs away with him.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince