Evie

“How about that I don’t deserve you and I don’t deserve to be as happy as you make me, but I’m just enough of a bastard to try to grab onto something I don’t deserve?”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope

“Nothing in this world matters as much to me as you, Wren. I would burn entire kingdoms to the ground to keep you safe,” Everis met Wren’s eyes, and the heat in his voice only validated his conviction, “and I would not regret it.”
― Kelley York, Into the Glittering Dark

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“He had a sudden intense wish to confess his sins and be absolved. A priest would have been nice. Another paladin would have been even better. Unfortunately he had a gnole and a doctor, one of whom probably wouldn’t be impressed by his sins and the other of which featured far too prominently in them.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope