Damsel in Delight

“You don't regret it?"
She shakes her head, her smile sad, "No."
"Good," I murmur. "Because I've always had a thing for short hair."
"Oh, really?" She laughs as I sway us in a circle.
"It's true. Among other things, of course." I shrug a shoulder. "Short hair. Ocean-blue eyes. Twenty-eight freckles. And"- I pause, examining her with a tilt of my head-"how tall are you?"
She blinks in confusion. "Umm, about five and a half feet?"
"Five and a half feet," I continue evenly. "The terrifying ability to kick a man's ass. Stunning smile. Ridiculously stubborn. Hair like molten silver. Quick to threaten me with a dagger." I smile down at her. "Should I go on?”
― Lauren Roberts, Reckless

“Life is not as simple as good and evil. It is mostly lived in the pages in between.”
― Evelyn Skye, Damsel

“Plagues. Pretty boy. Pretty words.”
― Lauren Roberts, Reckless

“Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study