Jessica Lorenzo

“For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“It was all her. Deadly and stunning. Even her hatred was fucking beautiful.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“You have nothing but me,” I said. “And yet, you’d let me go?” “I have nothing but you,” he murmured. “So I am letting you go.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The role of the villain is only determined by who’s telling the story.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall