✧ jasmine (the queen of ravka) ✧

“So,” he says, nodding his head slowly, taking his time walking around the room with his hands clasped behind his back.
“That was one hell of a show back there. That’s the kind of entertainment we never really get underground.”
Mortification.
I’m draped in it. Painted in it. Buried in it.
“I mean, I just have to say—that last line? ‘I wish I could love you less’? That was genius. Really, really nice. I think Winston actually shed a tear—”
― Tahereh Mafi

“But it was actually that moment, that crying moment, that’d forged some sort of connection between me and Wes.”
― Lynn Painter

“I loved you,” he whispered, “when the world was pain and the only thing that made sense was your eyes. I loved you before I knew to hate myself, and I have loved you every day since.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection

“Fear wasn’t just ice in your veins or a beast at your throat. Fear was loving someone so fiercely that there was no point in your heart beating if hers did not.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Games Untold: An Inheritance Games Collection