Lift your hips for me, love. - Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

"Kenji has a hand pressed to his mouth, desperately trying to suppress a smile. He’s shaking his head, holding up a hand in apology. And then he breaks, laughing out loud, snorting as he tries to muffle the sound. “I’m sorry,” he says, pressing his lips together, shaking his head again. “This is not a funny moment. It’s not. I’m not laughing"

"The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone. H e l l i s e m p t y a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r eI kiss my way across the words.Kissing away the devils.Kissing away the pain."

"His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think,"he says, "my heart is going to explode,"and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this.This is everything."

"Lift your hips for me, love."

"Kenji snorts.“That’s because you’re not fragile,” Kenji says. “If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. You’re like a freaking beast,” he says. Then adds, “I mean, you know—like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people."