Charlene

“All that stands between a hero and villainy is proper motivation, "he says. "Love provokes the hero as violently as it does the villain, and it's merely who tells the story that determines which is which.”
― Shannon J. Spann, A Stage Set for Villains

“He couldn’t decide then what he loved most about her. He couldn’t choose, and he needn’t bother. She was unyielding tenderness; graceful strength. He wanted a life with her he was afraid even to fashion into thought. He wanted time with her he would never have. He wanted moments he did not deserve. Where she was everything, he was nothing, and never was this more apparent than now.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“I would lose my life for you before finding something else worth living for.” His fingers weave into my hair, slide along the back of my neck. “You are my inevitable. In life and in death.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless

“I'd know you with any face and by any name, Riven. His golden eyes meet mine, and his words wrap around me like a familiar blanket. "Any voice no matter how cutting. Through any gaze no matter how loathing. I would know your touch through a closed curtain and the sound of your step when the last spotlight has gone out. I have known you at the beginning of each performance, and I will bow with you at the brink of every finale.”
― Shannon J. Spann, A Stage Set for Villains