Denise

“She wanted to rip down the sky and shred it with her fingernails, to pluck every star from the fabric of heavens until fathomless darkness matched the void inside her.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“She held the ring in her palm, looking down at it. When she turned it in her hand, she saw for the first time that there were letters engraved on the inner curve as well as the outside. She tilted it to the light.

A vila mon Coeur, it said in French.
A vila mon Coeur. Gardi li mo.

She closed her eyes, curling her fingers tight around the ring, and bowed her head with a whimper of despair.

Here is my heart. Guard it well.”
― Laura Kinsale, Shadowheart

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“A poor man lacks many things, but a greedy man lacks them all.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace